Gilford Elementary School

Gilford Elementary School is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in Gilford, New Hampshire, part of Gilford School District, with 303 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 249.

Gilford Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Gilford School District, a district that instructs 1,050 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Gilford Elementary School lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Belknap County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Belknap County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gilford Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.5%, the actual is 62.8%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Belknap County put the typical household earns roughly $92,783 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Belknap County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,344 students), Gilford Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gilford High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Gilford Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gilford Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 40.7%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 333 students in 2018 compared to 303 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.