The Academy at Swift River, also known as ASR, was a coeducational therapeutic boarding school for teenagers, located in Plainfield and Cummington, Massachusetts.
The school's student population was described as "bright but underachieving kids" with a variety of behavioral problems.
ASR was in session year-round and offered a college preparatory curriculum for high school grades 9 to 12.
[4] The school was the focus of the 2005 book What It Takes To Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out by journalist David Marcus.
[5] In July 2013, Aspen Education Group announced that it would close the school later that summer.