Deerfield Elementary

As an intimate K-5 school in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, Deerfield Elementary educates 301 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Deerfield. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Deerfield Elementary sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

Operationally, Deerfield Elementary answers to Deerfield, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Deerfield Elementary logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Franklin County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Deerfield Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,907 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,666 students), Deerfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Frontier Regional, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 25%: 401 students in 2018 compared to 301 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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