Over the last eight years, the number of students participating in the Vermont free and reduced-price meal program has skyrocketed (click here for the full story).
As data from the Vermont Department of Education reveals, the percentage of the Addison County's student body participating in the free and reduce-priced lunch program has risen across the board — in every single school except for Ripton, where it dropped only .07 percent. For a school-by-school rundown of the percentage of students enrooled in this program from the county's three major districts, look below.

