Junior Kimberly Taylor worries about how she wants to get another school, maybe having a ride on a road on a road that can be dicey in winter. With just three students attending high school, she moves from one empty classroom to the next, mostly online classes or studying alone. She also worries about where she wants to attend school next year, now that her remote valley town has voted to close the combined middle and high school.
Vermont, like some other rural states, has been wrestling with dropping enrollment, rising education costs and tightening budgets, and is searching for solutions; it has been encouraged school districts to merge.
Nationally, school budgets have come to full recovery from the impact of the 2008-2009 recession, and while enrollment is increasing overall, the proportion of students in rural schools has fallen over the past decade, according to Patte Barth, the director of the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education.
Some U.S. They have a great deal of work to do, and they can take their time to school into extracurricular activities, according to Barth.
For the past decade, the school has talked about how to keep the school open with fewer and fewer students, school board chairman Jeff Sherwin said.
Rochester considered merging its school district with two other communities, but the proposal has failed.
Now some of its 1,000 residents are thinking about homeschooling or moving, while some families are worrying about how to get to school in another community.
In the next academic year, the elementary school wants to stay in the neighborhood, Stockbridge, and each town wants to keep those schools open.
Rochester middle and high school students wants to go to other school, with parents providing transportation.
A 40-minute drive from Rochester, Ohio, is a 40-minute drive from Rochester.
Teachers saw that the high school, which is next to the elementary school, would likely close, so said.
That gave the school board about a month and a couple of new teachers, he said, so the board chose to pay tuition for the high school students to attending schools in other communities, he said.
Taylor, who has attended the Rochester district all her life, said she did not have enough time to go to school, so she decided to stay.
Her brother attends the middle school and her middle school and high school.
Most of her friends left to go to school in Middlebury or to an early college program at Randolph, about a half-hour drive.
Karen Rogers, whose daughter attends the Middle School, does not know what her family will do about school next year.
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