Gilford High School

Gilford High School operates as a mid-sized senior high in Gilford, New Hampshire, part of Gilford School District. Current enrollment sits at 470 students spanning grades 9 through 13.

Across the 3 schools in Gilford School District (1,050 students total), Gilford High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gilford High School logs that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Belknap County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Gilford High School records 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 11% of students at Gilford High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Belknap County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gilford High School is in the bottom 10% of New Hampshire public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.3%; Gilford High School posts 42.0%, -14.3 points below that line.

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

The closest other public school is Gilford Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gilford High School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

Gilford High School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 488 students in 2018 compared to 470 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.