Bedford High School

Set in Bedford, New Hampshire, Bedford High School is a well-populated senior high, overseen by Bedford School District. It serves 1,360 students across grades 9 through 13. That puts it 174% above the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 496 students.

Across the 6 schools in Bedford School District (3,970 students total), Bedford High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Bedford High School logs that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.2:1 average. Around 5% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Hillsborough County's rate of about 26%.

With demographic context factored in, Bedford High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) records that median household income runs about $103,545, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hillsborough County runs 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), of which Bedford High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ross A. Lurgio Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bedford High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 1,491 students in 2018 compared to 1,360 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 87% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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