Berlin Senior High School

As a low-enrollment senior high in Berlin, New Hampshire, Berlin Senior High School enrolls 303 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Berlin School District. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 496.

Berlin School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 969 students. Berlin Senior High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Berlin Senior High School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Berlin Senior High School has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.2:1, putting Berlin Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Coos County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Berlin Senior High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.3%; actual is 25.0%, a gap of -16.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Coos County indicate median household income runs about $57,677, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Coos County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,254 students), of which Berlin Senior High School is one.

Berlin Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Berlin Senior High School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 391 students in 2018 compared to 303 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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