Swift River Elementary

Swift River Elementary is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Belchertown, Massachusetts. It teaches 445 students in grades 1 through 3.

Belchertown runs Swift River Elementary along with 4 other schools, enrolling 2,043 students in total.

White students are 80% of those enrolled at Swift River Elementary. Next come 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That is in line with Hampshire County, where about 82% of residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 34%.

The school had 34.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 12.8:1. The ratio is within a point of the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

In Hampshire County, home to about 162,028 people, the median household earns about $87,001 a year, roughly 52% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Hampshire County number 45, with about 16,626 students.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Chestnut Hill Community School, is less than a tenth of a mile. There are 6 other public schools within five miles.

On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.

The student count changed little between 2020-21 (439) and 2024-25 (445).

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