Lake Champlain Waldorf School is not anti-vaccine, nor do we support anti-vaccination movements.
While vaccination status is not a barrier to enrollment, we understand the important role that schools play in the preservation of public health. With this is mind, we make the following acknowledgments and commitments:
• We acknowledge our responsibility as a school to respect and act on current understandings within the field of public health. Our school policy, practice, and protective measures will rely primarily on information from the Vermont Department of Health, the National Association of School Nurses, and the American Association of Pediatricians. While we remain informed of other research and scientific perspectives, these are the medical authorities to which we will defer when information conflicts.
• We commit to communicating with current parents regularly about the role that all schools play in supporting the public health of our community.
• We commit to community-wide education about childhood vaccinations and the diseases they are designed to prevent, and an ongoing discussion about our responsibilities as a school community.
• We commit to respecting the legal rights of Vermont families to make informed decisions about childhood vaccinations in consultation with their family doctors and religious leaders.
• We commit to increasing our vaccine compliance rates to protect the public health of our community, with particular awareness of the needs of our most medically vulnerable.
In the 2025-26 school year, MMR vaccination rates are 90% in grades 1-12 and 95% in Early Childhood.