Swasey Central School

Swasey Central School is an average-sized primary school in Brentwood, New Hampshire, overseen by Brentwood School District. The school teaches 282 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Brentwood School District is the operating authority for Swasey Central School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Demographically, Swasey Central School logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Swasey Central School reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Swasey Central School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 57.1%; this one delivers 72.6%, a residual of +15.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Rockingham County) records that the typical household earns roughly $118,331 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Swasey Central School is one of 99 public schools in Rockingham County (combined enrollment of about 41,753 students).

The closest other public school is Ellis School, roughly 3.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Swasey Central School. On composite proficiency, Swasey Central School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

Swasey Central School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Swasey Central School's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 311 (now 282).

Inside the community feed, members of the Swasey Central School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.