You’re Invited! Essex High School’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) is proud to announce the Second Annual Senior Community Capstone Presentation and Celebration on Thursday, May 30, beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the EHS Auditorium. What: All seniors enrolled in AVPA must create, facilitate and complete a Community Capstone Project in which they identify a...   Read More

The following press release is provided courtesy of the Vermont Youth Orchestra: Ryan C. Wolbach a senior at Essex High School was recently awarded the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association’s (VYOA) 2013 Hermance Music Scholarship at the Flynn Theater May 5th. Ryan performed the 1811 Carl Maria von Weber’s “Clarinet Concertino in E Flat (Op. 26).”...   Read More

Recently, the Automotive Technology Program at the Center for Technology, Essex (CTE) recently completed the State Approved Auto Technician Skill Assessments in the areas of tires, disc brakes, drum brakes, hydraulic systems, electrical systems, and general service. This skills/written assessment is administered in order for students to receive industry credentials recognized in the state of...   Read More

Drexel Blair, an eighth-grade student at Albert D. Lawton (ADL), won Vermont’s competition for Google’s Doodle 4 Google competition.  His “Portal to Dr. X’s Universe” design will now compete with 49 other student finalists’ designs from throughout the nation. “Dr. X’s Universe is a dimension that exists within my imagination,” Blair explains on the Doodle...   Read More

Heart and Soul of Essex has engaged more than 500 Essex community members in neighborhood conversations and other activities to help identify our most common values. Groups met in living rooms, churches, libraries and businesses. They met in rural Essex and the very center of the village. They talked to many kinds of people (village...   Read More

Due to two weather-related days when schools throughout CCSU were closed, the last days of students have been adjusted to the following:   Essex Junction: PreK-7 students: last day = Monday, June 17 (a waiver was granted by the Prudential Committee to convert one of the additional student days to a staff in-service day). Monday,...   Read More

Kindergarten registration appointments for the 2013-2014 school year will be held during the afternoons of Wednesday, June 5 at Summit Street School and Thursday, June 6 at Hiawatha School. Students eligible for kindergarten must be 5-years-old before September 1, 2013 (per CCSU policy J7: Entrance Age). To schedule an appointment, please contact Mindy Deibler at...   Read More

Watch your school staff play basketball – experience March Madness right here in Essex Junction and donate to a great cause! When: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Friday April 5, 2013 Where: Fleming School Gym Admission: One Donated non-perishable food item or cash donation (all food items and cash donations will be donated to the Heavenly...   Read More

On Monday, March 25, Superintendent Michael R. Deweese informed the Chittenden Central Supervisory Union (CCSU) Board of his pending retirement.  Deweese’s employment contract expires this summer, and he informed the board of his plans to decline a contract renewal. Dr. Deweese has been with CCSU since 1992, serving six years as Assistant Superintendent before becoming...   Read More

This is your one-stop-shop for all things related to the proposed 2013-2014 Essex Junction and Union #46 School Districts’ budgets. Note: Essex Junction residents will vote on both the Essex Junction and Union #46 School Districts’ budgets, while Essex Town residents will only vote on the Union #46 School District budget. Essex Junction (Essex Junction...   Read More