Editing Essex, Vermont (section)

==Government==

Until 2022, Essex comprised three Vermont Legislature districts (seats) within [[Chittenden County, Vermont|Chittenden County]]: District 8–1, the central portion of the town of Essex;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/SmallMaps/CHI-8-1.pdf |title=District: CHI-8-1 |publisher=[[Vermont General Assembly]] |date=2012 |access-date=November 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112161809/http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/SmallMaps/CHI-8-1.pdf |archive-date=January 12, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> District 8–2, the [[Essex Junction, Vermont|former village of Essex Junction]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/SmallMaps/CHI-8-2.pdf |title=District: CHI-8-2 |publisher=[[Vermont General Assembly]] |date=2012 |access-date=November 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124214844/http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/SmallMaps/CHI-8-2.pdf |archive-date=January 24, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and District 8–3, northern town of Essex and the [[Westford, Vermont|town of Westford]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/SmallMaps/CHI-8-3.pdf |title=District: CHI-8-3 |publisher=[[Vermont General Assembly]] |date=2012 |access-date=November 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170112162822/http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/SmallMaps/CHI-8-3.pdf |archive-date=January 12, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The town of Essex and the city of Essex Junction continued to share municipal services until July 1, 2023.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/2022-04-22/essex-junction-will-officially-become-its-own-city-on-july-1 | title=Essex Junction will officially become its own city on July 1 | date=April 22, 2022 }}</ref>

===Education===

The Essex Westford School District (EWSD)—unified on July 1, 2017—serves 4,500 Pre-K to grade&nbsp;12 students in Essex, [[Essex Junction, Vermont|Essex Junction]], and [[Westford, Vermont]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ewsd.org/ |title=About EWSD |publisher=www.ewsd.org |access-date=November 30, 2017}}</ref> EWSD operates ten schools in the two towns—Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, Essex Center for Technology, Essex Elementary School, [[Essex High School (Vermont)|Essex High School (EHS)]], Essex Middle School, Founders Memorial School, Hiawatha Elementary School, Summit Street School, Thomas Fleming School, and Westford School.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ewsd.org/domain/453 |title=EWSD Schools |publisher=www.ewsd.org |access-date=November 30, 2017}}</ref> Previously, the three communities had separate Pre-K to grade&nbsp;8 school districts that fed the already unified EHS.

EWSD provides busing for students in Essex and Westford, as well as students in Essex Junction, who did not have buses prior to 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=School Transportation |url=https://www.ewsd.org/domain/167 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042745/https://www.ewsd.org/domain/167 |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |website=Essex Westford School District}}</ref> EWSD also provides busing to students from [[South Hero, Vermont|South Hero]], [[Grand Isle, Vermont|Grand Isle]], [[North Hero, Vermont|North Hero]] and [[Georgia, Vermont|Georgia]] who choose to attend EHS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ewsd.org/domain/167 |title=EWSD Transportation |publisher=www.ewsd.org |access-date=November 30, 2017}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=December 2023|reason=This was added back in May 2012 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=493129620&oldid=492273243&title=Essex%2C_Vermont), long before the Internet Archive's first archive of the webpage.}}