Amherst Street School

Located at 71 Amherst St., in Nashua, New Hampshire, Amherst Street School is a mid-tier elementary school that enrolls 290 students (grades K through 5), operated by Nashua School District.

Within Nashua School District, which oversees 21 schools and 10,636 students, Amherst Street School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Amherst Street School reports that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 37% White, 10% multiracial, 5% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Amherst Street School shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Hillsborough County's rate of about 26%.

With demographic context factored in, Amherst Street School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.4%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Around the school, Hillsborough County reports that median household earnings sit near $103,545, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Hillsborough County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), Amherst Street School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mt. Pleasant School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Amherst Street School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.2%.

Amherst Street School operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 288 students in 2018 compared to 290 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 37% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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