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What's the most underrated thing about Fairgrounds Elementary School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
445
Elementary
DISTRICT 320 · STATE 249
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NASHUA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 330498000508
Fairgrounds Elementary School
37 Blanchard St., Nashua, NH 03060 · (603) 966-2220 · Hillsborough County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL445 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of New Hampshire public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
12.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
258 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 26%
Community
1
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 | 51 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 45% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
63%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
Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientEnglish Language Arts
30.0%
NH avg 55.2%
Math
26.0%
NH avg 43.0%
What this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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
26.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.0%
based on NH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Fairgrounds Elementary School
Fairgrounds Elementary School's state test result (26.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairgrounds Elementary School this school | 445 | 58.0% | 26.5% |
| Amherst Street School Nashua | 290 | 66.6% | 23.7% |
| Mt. Pleasant School Nashua | 250 | 68.0% | 21.1% |
| Ledge Street School Nashua | 454 | 72.9% | 20.4% |
| Dr. Norman W. Crisp School Nashua | 361 | 75.1% | 17.4% |
| McDonough School Manchester | 534 | 65.2% | 16.3% |
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 Fairgrounds Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Hampshire | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #196 of 209 | #42 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #189 of 209 | #43 of 51 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #194 of 210 | #42 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 445 | #30 of 300 | #15 of 68 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #149 of 179 | #42 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #14 of 181 | #14 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.0% | #14 of 240 | #10 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.4% | #59 of 139 | #21 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
445
-41 (-8%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 710
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 445 | 34.6 | 12.9:1 | 58% (258) |
| 2023-24 | 499 | N/A | N/A | 61% (305) |
| 2022-23 | 500 | 38.8 | 12.9:1 | 62% (311) |
| 2020-21 | 486 | 38 | 12.8:1 | 56% (271) |
| 2017-18 | 520 | 37.8 | 13.8:1 | 67% (348) |
| 2015-16 | 533 | 41 | 13.0:1 | 72% (383) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | 41 | 13.0:1 | 65% (346) |
| 2000-01 | 854 | 48 | 17.8:1 | 37% (316) |
| 1990-91 | 710 | 36 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fairgrounds Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (520 to 445); teachers down 8% (37.8 to 34.6).
About Fairgrounds Elementary School
As a large elementary school, Fairgrounds Elementary School serves students in Nashua, New Hampshire. It enrolled 445 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 79% higher than the average for elementary schools in New Hampshire, which is about 249.
Fairgrounds Elementary School reports to Nashua School District, which has 21 schools and 10,636 students.
Hispanic students form the largest group at Fairgrounds Elementary School, 47% of enrollment. Other groups make up 37% White, 11% multiracial, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. County-wide, 9% of Hillsborough County residents are Hispanic. By the diversity index, Fairgrounds Elementary School comes in at 63%.
Its 34.6 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 12.9:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New Hampshire is 11.0:1, lower than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 58% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Hillsborough County averages 26%, lower than here.
The allk12 Grade for Fairgrounds Elementary School is D. Compared with New Hampshire public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 13% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
After adjusting for student poverty, Fairgrounds Elementary School lands between the top and bottom 10% of New Hampshire schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 26.5%; the prediction is 26.0%.
Census estimates describe Hillsborough County this way: median household income is about $103,545, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 127 public schools in Hillsborough County, with a combined enrollment of about 53,974.
Fairgrounds Middle School is located about 0.2 miles from Fairgrounds Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 39.9%, higher than Fairgrounds Elementary School's 26.5%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 445 was 8% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 486.
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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
Nearby schools
- Fairgrounds Middle School0.2 mi · 585
- Ledge Street School0.8 mi · 454
- Elm Street Middle School0.8 mi · 895
- Nashua High School South1.1 mi · 1,686
- Purple Panthers Preschool1.1 mi · 37
- Franklin Street School1.3 mi · 245
Frequently asked questions
About Fairgrounds Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Fairgrounds Elementary School?
Fairgrounds Elementary School enrolls approximately 445 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Fairgrounds Elementary School serve?
Fairgrounds Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Fairgrounds Elementary School have?
Fairgrounds Elementary School employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
How diverse is Fairgrounds Elementary School?
Fairgrounds Elementary School reports a student body of 37% White, 47% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Fairgrounds Elementary School?
Fairgrounds Elementary School is overseen by Nashua School District in Hillsborough County.
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