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Alumni: what's one memory from Bernice A. Ray School that still sticks with you?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
English Language Arts
81.0%
State avg 55.2%
District avg 81.0%
County avg 60.9%
District avg 81.0%
County avg 60.9%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all New Hampshire schools by score · Grafton County schools by score
NHSAS, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Above Proficient (lvl 3+4).Mathematics
79.0%
State avg 43.0%
District avg 79.0%
County avg 50.5%
District avg 79.0%
County avg 50.5%
Science
66.0%
State avg 38.1%
District avg 66.0%
County avg 45.3%
District avg 66.0%
County avg 45.3%
What this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 79 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 66 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all New Hampshire schools, those numbers are about 55, 43, and 38.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
77.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.2%
based on NH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in New Hampshire's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
By grade, SY 2024-25
School score vs state average per tested grade.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| Grade 3 | 70.0% | 49.5% | 83 | 78.0% | 53.6% | 83 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 4 | 86.0% | 52.6% | 83 | 83.0% | 52.5% | 83 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 5 | 86.0% | 57.3% | 73 | 76.0% | 42.3% | 73 | 66.0% | 38.5% | 73 |
| Grade ALL | 81.0% | 55.2% | 238 | 79.0% | 43.0% | 243 | 66.0% | 38.1% | 73 |
1-year history
All grades, all students. Bernice A. Ray New Hampshire avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 81.0% | 81.0% | 60.9% | 55.2% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 79.0% | 79.0% | 50.5% | 43.0% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 66.0% | 66.0% | 45.3% | 38.1% |
Recent discussions
From the Bernice A. Ray School community.How to read these scores
What is NHSAS?
NHSAS is the statewide standardized test administered by New Hampshire public schools.
What does "% Above Proficient (lvl 3+4)" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 81.0% mean for English Language Arts at Bernice A. Ray School?
It means about 81.0 percent of students tested at Bernice A. Ray School performed at grade level or above on the NHSAS English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for New Hampshire that year was 55.2%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in New Hampshire, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
New Hampshire Department of Education, New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System (NHSAS). School-level All Students subgroup from the NH DOE public disaggregated data CSV. Headline metric is the cumulative Level 3+4 rate ("Above Proficient").
How often is it updated?
NHSAS is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.