Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District

Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District (MMUUSD), formerly the Mount Mansfield Union School District #17, is a school district headquartered in Jericho, Vermont.[1]

It is the district farthest east in Chittenden County, Vermont. There are approximately 2600 students enrolled in the district.[2]

Each town in the district has its own elementary school, which serves K-4th grade.

Students from Huntington, Bolton and Richmond attend Camels Hump Middle School. Those from Jericho and Underhill attend Browns River Middle School. Both middle schools serve grades 5-8.

The district's high school is Mount Mansfield Union High School, located in Jericho, which takes students graduating from both middle schools, and serves grades 9-12.

History

The predecessor districts were in the Chittenden East Supervisory Union (CESU), which was their umbrella organization. In a span of ten years the residents of the predecessor districts voted on whether to merge their school districts on five occasions.[3] The vote that day favored consolidation.[4] The district was established effective November 4, 2014.[5] The merged district began operations the following year.[4]

In 2011 there was a vote among the towns on whether to merge that did not pass. Another such vote was scheduled in 2014.[6] The district formed with the voluntary merger of the Bolton, Jericho, Richmond, and Underhill school districts.[3] When MMUUSD formed, Huntington residents already had representation as the community sent its secondary students there, but Huntington continued to have its own elementary school district.[7]

Residents of Huntington resisted merging for a longer time, with four unsuccessful votes on merging into MMUUSD. At one point the state of Vermont passed Act 46 that obligated school districts to merge.[3] The Huntington School District sued the state government to try to stop the merger.[8] In 2018 the Huntington district filed its third lawsuit against mergers.[9] On June 6, 2019,[10] the vote to merge Huntington into Mount Mansfield succeeded on a 450-191 basis; the Chittenden East Supervisory Union dissolved as a result.[3]

Schools
High school
Middle schools
  • Browns River Middle School
  • Camels Hump Middle School
Elementary schools
  • Brewster-Pierce Memorial School (Huntington) - In 2019 it had 136 students.[7]
  • Jericho Elementary School
  • Richmond Elementary School
  • Smilie Memorial School
  • Underhill Central School
Preschool
  • Underhill ID Preschool
Former schools
  • Underhill-Jericho School - In 2018 the board voted to close the school effective 2019, with eight members favoring and five opposing. Students were moved to Jericho Elementary School and Underhill Central School.[11]

References
  1. "Directions to MMUUSD Central Office". Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  2. "Mount Mansfield Unified Union School District". mmuusd.org/. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  3. Dufort, Lola (2019-06-07). "Mount Mansfield district towns vote to merge with Huntington". VTDigger. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  4. Niles, Hilary (2014-11-05). "Chittenden East approves voluntary school merger". VTDigger. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  5. rthomasa (2016-10-29). "Political Capital, Richmond, VT". University of Vermont. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  6. Kelley, Kevin J. (2014-10-29). "Voters to Decide Who Oversees Eastern Chittenden County Schools". Seven Days. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  7. McCallum, Kevin (2019-06-19). "As Act 46 Deadline Looms, Districts Rush to Finish Their Math Homework". Seven Days. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  8. Ferraro, Neliana (2019-01-12). "Community hopeful for Act 46 merger". WCAX. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  9. Duffort, Lola (2018-12-21). "Huntington files third legal challenge to forced mergers under Act 46". VTDigger. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  10. "June 6th Merger Vote". Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  11. Duffort, Lola (2018-11-08). "District school board votes to close Underhill-Jericho elementary school". VTDigger. Retrieved 2020-04-12.

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