Farmington Senior High School

Farmington Senior High School is one of the tight-knit secondary schools in FARMINGTON, New Hampshire, part of Farmington School District, with 214 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 496 students each, so Farmington Senior High School sits 57% below that benchmark.

Farmington School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 730 students; Farmington Senior High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Farmington Senior High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder comes out to 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Strafford County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at Farmington Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Strafford County's rate of about 26%.

With demographic context factored in, Farmington Senior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.5%.

In the broader community, Strafford County reports that median household income runs about $88,570, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Strafford County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,978 students), of which Farmington Senior High School is one.

Valley View Community School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Farmington Senior High School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 256 students in 2018 compared to 214 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 95% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 5.5:1 in 2025.

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