Broken Ground School

Broken Ground School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Concord, New Hampshire, run under Concord School District, works with 291 students, covering grades 3 through 5.

Concord School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,835 students; Broken Ground School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Broken Ground School logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 16% Black, 9% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Merrimack County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at Broken Ground School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Merrimack County runs at roughly 25%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Broken Ground School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 38.0%; this one delivers 53.4%, a residual of +15.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Merrimack County) logs that median household income runs about $97,004, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Broken Ground School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mill Brook School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Broken Ground School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

Broken Ground School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 22%: 371 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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