If you
visit the Massachusetts Department of Education profiles pages
for each public school below, you'll be able to access detailed
information including test scores, student/teacher ratios and
ethnicity data. Distances are measured from the Leverett Library
at 75 Montague Rd.
About
The Town — Quietly nestled in the Pioneer Valley,
slightly to one side of the major highways, Leverett enjoys
country living in comfortable proximity to town and city life.
Diversity is reflected in Leverett road names. Amherst,
Montague and Shutesbury Roads lead to those neighboring
towns, Long Plain road suggests the town's flat, agricultural
area. Rattlesnake Gutter is a legacy of the last ice age,
with glacial ravine and soaring cliffs. Cave Hill, Teawaddle
Hill, Juggler Meadow, and January Hills tickle imaginations.
Tree-lined stone walls accompany the raods, which climb,
dip and curve to expse varied vistas. Wood roads and trails
on Brushy Mountain and surrounding hills disclose stone
structures, cairns and old walls of unknown dates which
housed early inhabitants.
The Sawmill River in the north end and Roaring Brook in
the eastern part of town were crucial to the 19th century
industrial period. Mills and shops proliferated, and Leverett
was a self-sufficient community with goods and foods to
spare, populated by hard-working farmers, lumbermen and
shop hands. Recent years have brought a deiversity of skills
and lifestyles, as educators are drawn to the 5 college
area; craftsmen, artists and musicians find a creative atmosphere;
transportation and communication development allows professionals
to choose their work base.
The architecture of Leverett's homes reflect these changes.
Federal and Greek Revival houses are firmly anchored by
venerable maples. Later capes and ranch houses and recent
large modern homes have joined them to present a pleasing
variety of individual dwellings. In a similar manner, religious
buildings include not only the traditional Congregational
and Baptist churches but a regional Friends Meeting House
and a huge white Buddhist Peace Pagoda atop a hillside.
Leverett's people are consistently generous in sharing
their many skills. Although they radiate in many directions,
they come together in elemantary school activities, to volunteer
in town activities, to meet at the Village Coop and the
town dump, with love and pride in their town.
Source: http://www.mass.gov/dhcd/iprofile/154.pdf,
Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
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