Shawsheen School

Shawsheen School is one of the public schools in Andover, Massachusetts. It is a very small elementary school. It teaches 85 students in pre-K. It has 78% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Massachusetts (about 381).

Andover oversees Shawsheen School and 9 other schools, with 5,414 students in total.

Federal enrollment data show Shawsheen School is 59% White. Next come 21% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Black. The county population is about 68% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 59%.

For every teacher at Shawsheen School, there are about 8.5 students; the school has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is 12.2:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher.

In Essex County, the median household earns about $101,883 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Essex County has 221 public schools with about 113,427 students, including Shawsheen School.

Shawsheen School's closest public school neighbor is Frost Middle School, about 0.9 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

NCES assigns Shawsheen School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Shawsheen School had 54 students in 2020-21 and 85 in 2024-25, according to federal records. Those counts may cover different grade spans.

The allk12 page for Shawsheen School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.