decreased; across all standardized testing, EHS ranked in the bottom 10% of the state in average math and ELA scores. Tuition was $11,900 in 2009-2010. This tuition was paid by towns sending students to this public school, sometimes from outside the school district. Student activities There are 31 clubs and 18 sports including: The Essex High School Robotics club competes in FIRST Tech Challenge and progressed to the internationals in St. Louis in 2012. The We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution team won the state championship seven times since 2004 and was ranked nationally for five years. The EHS team for this competition disbanded after 2011. In 2005, the programming team won the regional title and was ranked fourth nationally, and ranked third in 1981. The Envirothon team won the state competition in 2007, 2009, and 2010. The Scholar's Bowl Team won the state championship in 2021, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2010, and 2004. Athletics The school has a stadium, track, tennis courts, and several practice fields. The town's indoor hockey rink is located on school grounds. School teams and student athletes have won over 200 Vermont State Championships since 1970. This figure includes 63 individual track records set by various girl and boy athletes. The girls' cross country team has won 18 state championships, and won New England's in 1986, 1987, and 1994. Since 1948, the boys' cross-country teams have won 16 titles, including a New England's crown in 1987, and won five consecutive titles from 2000-2004. Most recently the boys cross country team were state champions in 2018 and the Boys track team won states in 2018 This run culminated in a 4th-place finish at the New England championships in 2004. Essex's boys' and girls' teams have won a total of 36 state titles since 1973. The boys' hockey team won its first Vermont state championship in 1981, and has won it fifteen times since. In the 2003-2004 season, the hockey team went undefeated, winning 23 straight games and the Vermont state title. In 2006, Bill O'Neil was named national boys' hockey coach of the year. The football team has won the state title seven times - 1973, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1992, 2009, and 2021. The cheerleading team has captured the most state championships by any cheerleading team in Vermont, winning a total of 21 state titles since 1986. In 2005, after taking first place