Gossler Park School

Gossler Park School is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Manchester, New Hampshire, operated by Manchester School District, enrolling 366 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 249 students each, so Gossler Park School sits 47% above that benchmark.

Gossler Park School is one of 21 schools operated by Manchester School District, a district that educates 12,295 students overall.

On demographics, Gossler Park School records that the most-represented group is White (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 32% Hispanic, 16% Black, 13% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Gossler Park School lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Hillsborough County's rate of about 26%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gossler Park School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 25.5%, a residual of +2.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,545 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Hillsborough County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), Gossler Park School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Middle School At Parkside, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gossler Park School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Gossler Park School's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 458 (now 366). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 53% to 36%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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