Crescent Lake School

Located at 75 McManus Rd., in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Crescent Lake School is a close-knit 6-8 campus that hosts 181 students (grades 4 through 6), overseen by Governor Wentworth Regional School District. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 379 students each, so Crescent Lake School sits 52% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Governor Wentworth Regional School District, which oversees 8 schools and 2,077 students, Crescent Lake School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Crescent Lake School lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Carroll County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Crescent Lake School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. The state averages about 11.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crescent Lake School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Carroll County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,463 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Crescent Lake School is one of 28 public schools in Carroll County (combined enrollment of about 5,659 students).

The closest other public school is Kingswood Regional Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Crescent Lake School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Crescent Lake School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 201 (now 181). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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