Education
In Bullet about 216 or (41.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 47 or (9.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 47 who completed tertiary schooling, 68.1% were Swiss men, 19.1% were Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 65 students in the Bullet school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 29 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 36 students in those schools.
As of 2000, there were 20 students in Bullet who came from another municipality, while 55 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
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