Elementary · North Carolina
Swain County West Elementary
Swain County West Elementary, a public elementary school in Bryson City, North Carolina: grades k–6, 403 students, 15.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Swain County Schools.
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
- 403
- Teachers (FTE)
- 25.5
- Students per teacher
- 15.8
- Grades
- K–6
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 69% of elementary schools in North Carolina
Median 14.7 · 1,461 schools compared
More students per teacher than 63% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 60% of elementary schools in North Carolina
Median 455 · 1,469 schools compared
Smaller than 52% 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
- Area
- Remote rural area
- Run by
- Swain County Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Swain County Schools.
Location
- Address
- 4142 Hwy 19 West, Bryson City, NC 28713
- Phone
- (828)488-2119
- County
- Swain 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Mountain DiscoveryCharter | K–8 | 221 | 16.2 |
| K–5 | 338 | 16.5 | |
| Pre-K–8 | 340 | 15.8 | |
| Pre-K–4 | 408 | 12.9 | |
| K–4 | 315 | 12.6 | |
| Pre-K–4 | 354 | 14.4 |
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).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
NCES 370444002316