Alton Central School (Elem)

Alton Central School (Elem) is one of the large K-5 schools in Alton, New Hampshire, one of the schools within Alton School District, with 407 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 249 students per school, that is 63% larger than typical.

Alton Central School (Elem) is a school of Alton School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alton Central School (Elem) logs that nearly all students (96%) are White. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Alton Central School (Elem) has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Belknap County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Alton Central School (Elem) falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.9%; this one comes in at 37.1%, -16.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Belknap County) logs that median household income runs about $92,783, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Alton Central School (Elem) is one of 23 public schools in Belknap County (combined enrollment of about 7,344 students).

The closest other public school is Prospect Mountain High School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alton Central School (Elem) ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Alton Central School (Elem)'s enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 453 (now 407). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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