Vermont Commons School is an independent college preparatory school located in South Burlington, Vermont, serving grades 6–12. Vermont Commons School was founded in 1997. Its Founder and first Head of School was former Champlain College President Robert A. Skiff. During its first semester, 32 students were enrolled and the school grew steadily in size and offerings over the next ten years. In 2007, Skiff retired, and was succeeded by Peter Ross, who served as Head of School through the fall of 2008. Upon Ross's departure, Science and Math teacher Hans Manske served as Acting Head while the Board of Trustees conducted a search for new leadership. In July 2009, the Board selected Peter Gilmore as their new Head of School. Gilmore had previously served as Principal of The Friends School of Baltimore, MD and Upper School Director at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine. After five years of solid growth approaching 100 students and including accreditation by the New England Association of Independent Schools (NEASC) and membership in the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), Gilmore left the school at the end of the 2013–14 school year, and was succeeded by Dr. Dexter Mahaffey. A journalist and educator, Mahaffey previously worked in public and private schools and taught at the university level around the United States, most recently serving as Director of Diversity and Global Studies at Kentucky Country Day School from 2007 to 2014. Dr. Mahaffey is past Vice President of the Vermont Independent Schools Association and former Chair of the Council of Independent Schools for the Vermont Agency of Education. In the 2015-16 academic year, the school added the 6th grade to its academic program, exceeded 100 enrolled students, and began Sister School relationships with Colegio Santa Ana in Lima, Peru, and Pioneer Learning Community in Chengdu, China. In the 2021-22 academic year the school celebrated its 25th year, and in early 2023 school year, Vermont Commons received a ten-year re-accreditation through NEASC. In 2017 and again in 2022, the E.E. Ford Foundation awarded major grants to the school in support of, respectively, the enrollment and support of Refugee students at the school and through matriculation in higher education and for its campus expansions at 55 Green Mountain Drive and the Outdoor Education Center. More information...
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