Cornish Elementary School

Located at 274 Town House Rd., in Cornish, New Hampshire, Cornish Elementary School is a tight-knit elementary school that teaches 137 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Cornish School District. That puts it 45% leaner than the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 249 students.

Operationally, Cornish Elementary School answers to Cornish School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Cornish Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%).

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 17% of students at Cornish Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sullivan County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cornish Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Sullivan County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,858 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Cornish Elementary School is one of 29 public schools in Sullivan County (combined enrollment of about 4,498 students).

The closest other public school is Windsor School, roughly 3.4 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cornish Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.3%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cornish Elementary School has climbed 52%, going from 90 students in 2018 to 137 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Cornish Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.