Essex Westford School District

EHS teacher Liz Ritchie was awarded the 2024-2025 UVM Outstanding Educator Award. Ritchie will be celebrated at the 44th annual UVM Outstanding Educator Award Event on Thursday, ...

The Vermont Department of Health’s Asthma-Friendly Schools Program recently recognized Hiawatha as a gold-level Asthma-friendly school for 2023-24, while Founders earned silver st...

The countdown to the 2024-2025 school year has begun! Visit ewsd.org/back2school for helpful back-to-school information and resources. 🌿

Congratulations to CTE’s Julia Morton who took home first-place honors with a gold medal in Dental Assisting at the National SkillsUSA Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. CTE sent 13 ...

The Vermont High School Decathlon State Championship was held on June 16 & 17, 2024. Over 60 Vermont high school track and field athletes came together to compete in 10 track and ...

Each year EHS faculty and staff can vote for a colleague to be the recipient of the Heart of a Hornet Award. Criteria is that the nominee shall have met the following: Provid...

Corporal Ruttenberg is set to retire after 24 years of dedicated service with the Essex Police Department (EPD). For the past four years, he has served as an EWSD Liaison Officer...

ADL's Speech Language Pathologist, Claudia Abbiati, was recognized as an Outstanding Educational Support by the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI).

UVM Chemistry Professor Dr. Giuseppe Petrucci joined ADL 7th and 8th grade science classes to perform a series of big exothermic reactions, including a 10-foot-tall elephant tooth...

EHS junior, Tess Adams, broke a 37-year-old Vermont Division 1 state record at the New England high school track and field championship. Her record-breaking event was discus, wh...

EHS is proud to announce six finalists in the annual NCTE Writing Contest. This year, Ben Smith earned the top award First Class; Alyse Bibeau and Ashtyn Morel-Blake earned an Exc...

Team Equinox at EMS participated in the Trout in the Classroom (TIC) program this year. Through TIC, classrooms get 100 brook trout eggs from the Vermont hatchery in January and t...

As part of an artist in residency, Hiawatha students performed as part of the Wunderle Big Top Adventure Circus on May 23!

The latest issue of the ADL Creative Writing and Art Journal is now available ! This is the second publication and represents a collaboration between the Creative Writing Club, AD...

Westford School recently held its 12th annual science fair in the gymnasium for grades K-6. Over 150 students contributed their ideas and hard work to the event. Elementary grade ...

CTE student, Griffin Smith, is a second-year automotive student who recently was awarded the Golden Wrench Award by the Vermont Automobile Enthusiasts (VAE). This year, he partici...

EHS junior, Alexa Rabidoux, was named recipient of the Clarkson University Leadership Award. This award is the highest honor at Clarkson University. If Alexa chooses to attend C...

Thank you to the Heritage Automotive Group, who recently donated a 2011 Toyota Prius Hybrid to CTE! Heritage has a long-standing relationship with CTE, as they have welcome...

Westford Librarian, Elizabeth Shelley, received the John T. Poeton Award from the Vermont Council on Literacy. This award and plaque are presented annually to an outstanding edu...

EHS/CTE senior, Angkith Pradhan, has been selected as a Gate Scholar and member of the Gates Scholarship Class of 2024. Pradhan was one of 750 students chosen from over 53,000 ...