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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Fairgrounds Middle School administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
585
Middle
DISTRICT 724 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NASHUA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 330498000319
Fairgrounds Middle School
27 Cleveland St., Nashua, NH 03060 · (603) 594-4393 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL585 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of New Hampshire public middle schools
- C-Test 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 11.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
247 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 26%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 199 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 186 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 200 | 34% |
Student demographics
62%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
42.0%
NH avg 55.2%
Math
29.0%
NH avg 43.0%
What this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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
31.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.2%
based on NH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Middle School
Fairgrounds Middle School's state test result (31.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairgrounds Middle School this school | 585 | 42.2% | 31.6% |
| Brian S. McCarthy Middle School NASHUA | 649 | 44.1% | N/A |
| Pennichuck Middle School Nashua | 768 | 46.6% | 29.9% |
| Southside Middle School Manchester | 768 | 43.0% | 24.0% |
| Henry J. McLaughlin Jr. Middle School Manchester | 889 | 42.5% | 17.4% |
| Seabrook Middle School Seabrook | 277 | 44.8% | 39.1% |
Matched among New Hampshire middle 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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Hampshire | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #70 of 85 | #21 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #65 of 85 | #20 of 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #68 of 85 | #20 of 27 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 585 | #23 of 101 | #13 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #59 of 74 | #22 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.9% | #8 of 74 | #8 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.2% | #18 of 90 | #8 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.7% | #19 of 57 | #9 of 17 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
585
-82 (-12%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 647
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 585 | 48 | 12.2:1 | 42% (247) |
| 2023-24 | 546 | 51.5 | 10.6:1 | 37% (203) |
| 2022-23 | 561 | 56 | 10.0:1 | 37% (207) |
| 2020-21 | 667 | 59 | 11.3:1 | 28% (190) |
| 2017-18 | 702 | 56.1 | 12.5:1 | 43% (303) |
| 2015-16 | 709 | 53 | 13.4:1 | 44% (309) |
| 2010-11 | 777 | 55 | 14.1:1 | 40% (313) |
| 2000-01 | 1,004 | 60 | 16.7:1 | 25% (248) |
| 1990-91 | 647 | 47 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fairgrounds Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (702 to 585); teachers down 14% (56.1 to 48).
About Fairgrounds Middle School
Fairgrounds Middle School, located in Nashua, New Hampshire, is a large middle-grades school. A federal count lists 585 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in New Hampshire is about 379, so this school runs 54% larger than that.
The district, Nashua School District, has 10,636 students enrolled across 21 schools.
Roughly 51% of students at Fairgrounds Middle School are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 33% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, and 2% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 82%. Fairgrounds Middle School's diversity index is 62%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teacher staffing is 48 full-time equivalents, or about 12.2 students per teacher. This ratio sits 1.1 above the 11.1:1 average for middle schools in New Hampshire. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 42%. The average for public schools in Hillsborough County is 26%.
The allk12 Grade for Fairgrounds Middle School is C-. Compared with New Hampshire public middle schools, the school scored higher than 21% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Fairgrounds Middle School is 4.6 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 31.6% actual, 36.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New Hampshire.
In the county around the school, Hillsborough County, the median household income is $103,545, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 127 public schools in Hillsborough County, enrolling about 53,974 students in all.
The school nearest to Fairgrounds Middle School is Fairgrounds Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Fairgrounds Middle School is 3rd of 5 nearby schools with test data.
Fairgrounds Middle School has an NCES locale of City: Small.
Over 4 years, Fairgrounds Middle School's enrollment declined 12%, to 585.
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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
- Bicentennial Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 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
- Bicentennial Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
Nearby schools
- Fairgrounds Elementary School0.2 mi · 445
- Elm Street Middle School0.9 mi · 895
- Ledge Street School0.9 mi · 454
- Purple Panthers Preschool1.2 mi · 37
- Nashua High School South1.2 mi · 1,686
- New Searles School1.3 mi · 256
Frequently asked questions
About Fairgrounds Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fairgrounds Middle School?
Fairgrounds Middle School enrolls approximately 585 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Fairgrounds Middle School serve?
Fairgrounds Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Fairgrounds Middle School?
Approximately 12.2:1 students per teacher at Fairgrounds Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Fairgrounds Middle School?
At Fairgrounds Middle School, the student body is approximately 51% White, 33% Hispanic, 2% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Fairgrounds Middle School?
Fairgrounds Middle School is overseen by Nashua School District in Hillsborough County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.