Enrollment
256
Elementary
DISTRICT 320 · STATE 249
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NASHUA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 330498000314
Broad Street Elementary School
390 Broad St., Nashua, NH 03063 · (603) 966-1880 · Hillsborough County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL256 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of New Hampshire public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Hampshire public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
70 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 26%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 38 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (39).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 33% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientEnglish Language Arts
56.0%
NH avg 55.2%
Math
50.0%
NH avg 43.0%
What this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Hampshire schools, those numbers are about 55 and 43.
Source: NHSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.9%
based on NH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Hampshire's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Broad Street Elementary School
Broad Street Elementary School's state test result (49.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Street Elementary School this school | 256 | 27.3% | 49.1% |
| Charlotte Ave Elementary School Nashua | 362 | 27.1% | 53.3% |
| Birch Hill Elementary School Nashua | 332 | 33.7% | 50.2% |
| New Searles School Nashua | 256 | 23.4% | 61.1% |
| Mary A. Fisk Elementary School Salem | 272 | 19.1% | 49.5% |
| Green Acres School Manchester | 343 | 22.4% | 41.3% |
Matched among New Hampshire elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Broad Street Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Hampshire | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.1% | #105 of 209 | #27 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #97 of 209 | #24 of 51 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #89 of 210 | #22 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 256 | #146 of 300 | #45 of 68 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #132 of 179 | #35 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.3% | #22 of 181 | #22 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.3% | #104 of 240 | #25 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.9% | #16 of 139 | #8 of 40 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
256
-28 (-10%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 427
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 10.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 256 | 21 | 12.2:1 | 27% (70) |
| 2023-24 | 243 | 22 | 11.1:1 | 26% (64) |
| 2022-23 | 249 | 22 | 11.3:1 | 25% (63) |
| 2020-21 | 284 | 28 | 10.1:1 | 21% (61) |
| 2017-18 | 350 | 29 | 12.1:1 | 26% (92) |
| 2015-16 | 336 | 29 | 11.6:1 | 31% (103) |
| 2010-11 | 397 | 28 | 14.2:1 | 21% (83) |
| 2000-01 | 484 | 30 | 16.1:1 | 9% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 427 | 20 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Broad Street Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (350 to 256); teachers down 28% (29 to 21).
About Broad Street Elementary School
Broad Street Elementary School is an elementary school in Nashua, New Hampshire, and it is part of Nashua School District. In all, 256 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5.
Broad Street Elementary School sits within Nashua School District, which has 21 schools and 10,636 students.
More than half of the students at Broad Street Elementary School are White (59%). Next come 20% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 3% Black. That compares with about 82% White among all Hillsborough County residents. The diversity index for Broad Street Elementary School is 59%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 21 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 12.2:1. The gap from the 11.0:1 average for elementary schools in New Hampshire is 1.2 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 27%. The average for public schools in Hillsborough County is similar, at 26%.
On the allk12 Grade, Broad Street Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 53% of New Hampshire public elementary schools.
Compared with New Hampshire schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Broad Street Elementary School's results are 3.2 points above predicted: 49.1% against 45.9%.
In the wider Hillsborough County area, median household income comes to about $103,545, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Hillsborough County's 127 public schools enroll about 53,974 students and include Broad Street Elementary School.
Broad Street Elementary School's nearest public school is Nashua High School North (about 0.5 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Broad Street Elementary School is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Its location is classified as City: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 284 to 256, a 10% drop. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.1:1 to 12.2:1.
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Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
426,378
Census ACS
Median income
$103,545
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
127
53,974 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Nashua School District
- Nashua High School SouthHigh · 1,686 students
- Nashua High School NorthHigh · 1,543 students
- Elm Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 895 students
- Pennichuck Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- Brian S. McCarthy Middle SchoolMiddle · 649 students
- Fairgrounds Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
Other schools in Nashua
- Nashua High School SouthHigh · 1,686 students
- Nashua High School NorthHigh · 1,543 students
- Elm Street Middle SchoolMiddle · 895 students
- Pennichuck Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
- Brian S. McCarthy Middle SchoolMiddle · 649 students
- Fairgrounds Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
Other Broad Street Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Broad Street Elementary. Broad Street Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Broad Street Elementary SchoolGIBBSTOWN, NJ · 290 students
- Broad Street Elementary SchoolMechanicsburg, PA · 239 students
- Broad Street Elementary SchoolButler, PA · 228 students
Nearby schools
- Nashua High School North0.5 mi · 1,543
- Birch Hill Elementary School0.6 mi · 332
- Purple Panthers Preschool0.9 mi · 37
- Nashua High School South0.9 mi · 1,686
- MicroSociety Academy Charter School Foundation1.0 mi · 303
- Ledge Street School1.5 mi · 454
Frequently asked questions
About Broad Street Elementary SchoolHow large is Broad Street Elementary School?
Broad Street Elementary School enrolls approximately 256 students in grades KG-05.
Is Broad Street Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Broad Street Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Broad Street Elementary School?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Broad Street Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Broad Street Elementary School?
At Broad Street Elementary School, the student body is approximately 59% White, 20% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Broad Street Elementary School public or private?
Broad Street Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Nashua School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.