| Address: | 211 Browns Trace Road |
| City: | Jericho |
| State: | Vermont |
| Zipcode: | 5465 |
| Country: | United States |
| Type: | Public |
| Grades: | PreK–12 |
| Students: | 2,569 |
| Teachers: | 169.93 |
| Staff: | 214.84 |
| Ratio: | 15.12 |
Mount Mansfield Modified Union School District (MMMUSD), 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.
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]