Elementary · Massachusetts
Fort River Elementary
Free meals for allFort River Elementary, a public elementary school in Amherst, Massachusetts: grades k–6, 371 students, 9.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Amherst.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 371
- Teachers (FTE)
- 40.1
- Students per teacher
- 9.3
- Grades
- K–6
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 90% of elementary schools in Massachusetts
Median 12.1 · 1,022 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 95% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 51% of elementary schools in Massachusetts
Median 373 · 1,022 schools compared
Smaller than 59% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades K–6
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Amherst
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Amherst.
Location
- Address
- 70 So East Street, Amherst, MA 01002
- Phone
- (413)362-1200
- City or town
- Amherst Town
- County
- Hampshire County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Wildwood ElementaryFree meals for all | K–6 | 314 | 9.3 |
| K–6 | 128 | 10.7 | |
Crocker Farm ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 353 | 9.7 |
Hadley ElementaryFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 315 | 12.0 |
| Pre-K–6 | 201 | 10.9 | |
| Pre-K–6 | 137 | 8.8 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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