Chestnut Hill Community School

As a medium-sized 6-8 campus in Belchertown, Massachusetts, Chestnut Hill Community School instructs 494 students from grades 4 through 6, one of the schools within Belchertown.

Within Belchertown, which oversees 5 schools and 2,043 students, Chestnut Hill Community School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Chestnut Hill Community School records that nearly all students (83%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hampshire County) records that median household earnings sit near $87,001, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Hampshire County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,626 students), of which Chestnut Hill Community School is one.

The closest other public school is Swift River Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Chestnut Hill Community School.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chestnut Hill Community School has contracted 11%, going from 554 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 4% to 12%.

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