Boscawen Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Boscawen, New Hampshire, Boscawen Elementary School educates 240 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Merrimack Valley School District.

Merrimack Valley School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,170 students; Boscawen Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Boscawen Elementary School lists that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Boscawen Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.0%; this one delivers 55.3%.

Across the wider county, Merrimack County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,004, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Boscawen Elementary School is one of 61 public schools in Merrimack County (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students).

The closest other public school is CSI Charter School, roughly 1.6 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Boscawen Elementary School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 45.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Boscawen Elementary School has fell 5%, going from 253 students in 2018 to 240 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 95% to 87%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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