Fort River Elementary

Fort River Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in Amherst, Massachusetts. Students in kindergarten through 6 make up the school's enrollment of 371 students.

The 3 schools in Amherst enroll 1,038 students altogether, Fort River Elementary among them.

White students make up 42% of enrollment at Fort River Elementary, the largest share of any group. Next come 35% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 7% Black, and 6% multiracial. That compares with about 82% White among all Hampshire County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 68%.

A staff of 40.1 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 9.3:1. Across elementary schools in Massachusetts, the average ratio is 12.2:1.

Looking at the county, Hampshire County, the median household earns about $87,001 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 52%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Hampshire County has 45 public schools with about 16,626 students, including Fort River Elementary.

Fort River Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Amherst Regional High, about 0.8 miles away. Within five miles of Fort River Elementary, there are 7 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

The school grew from 306 students in 2020-21 to 371 in 2024-25.

This page is set up for the Fort River Elementary community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.