Elm Street School

Elm Street School operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Laconia, New Hampshire, run under Laconia School District. Current enrollment sits at 259 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Laconia School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,808 students. Elm Street School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Elm Street School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 35% of students at Elm Street School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Elm Street School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.8%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +9.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Belknap County indicate median household earnings sit near $92,783, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Belknap County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,344 students), Elm Street School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Laconia Middle School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Elm Street School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Elm Street School at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.1%.

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

Five-year trend. Elm Street School's enrollment has declined 17% since 2018, when it stood at 312 (now 259). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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