Birch Hill Elementary School

Birch Hill Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in Nashua, New Hampshire, part of Nashua School District, with 332 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 249 students each, so Birch Hill Elementary School sits 33% above that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Birch Hill Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest looks like 20% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Birch Hill Elementary School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Birch Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 50.2%, a residual of +8.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $103,545 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Birch Hill Elementary School is one of 127 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students).

The closest other public school is Broad Street Elementary School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Birch Hill Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Birch Hill Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 17%: 402 students in 2018 compared to 332 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 65% to 60%. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.