Fairgrounds Middle School

As an expansive 6-8 campus in Nashua, New Hampshire, Fairgrounds Middle School enrolls 585 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Nashua School District. That puts it 54% larger than the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 379 students.

Within Nashua School District, which oversees 21 schools and 10,636 students, Fairgrounds Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fairgrounds Middle School reports that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 33% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Fairgrounds Middle School shows 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages around 11.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 26%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Fairgrounds Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.2%; this one delivers 31.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Hillsborough County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,545 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Fairgrounds Middle School is one of 127 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students).

Fairgrounds Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fairgrounds Middle School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fairgrounds Middle School has declined 17%, going from 702 students in 2018 to 585 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 59% to 51% over that span.

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