Bow Elementary School

Bow Elementary School operates as a sprawling K-5 school in Bow, New Hampshire, part of Bow School District. Current enrollment sits at 542 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 118% bigger than the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 249 students.

Bow School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,688 students. Bow Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bow Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest consists of 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bow Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 5% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Merrimack County's rate of about 25%.

After controlling for student poverty, Bow Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.2%; this one delivers 73.0%.

In the broader community, Merrimack County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,004, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Merrimack County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students), Bow Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Bow Memorial School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bow Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.9%.

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

Five-year trend. Bow Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 4% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 542). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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