Grantham Village School
Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientWhat this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Hampshire schools, those numbers are about 55 and 43.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in New Hampshire's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Grantham Village School
Set in Grantham, New Hampshire, Grantham Village School is a reasonably sized elementary campus, run under Grantham School District. It works with 258 students across grades pre-K through 6.
Operationally, Grantham Village School answers to Grantham School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Grantham Village School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Grantham Village School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting Grantham Village School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sullivan County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Grantham Village School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 60.8%; this one delivers 82.7%, a residual of +21.8 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sullivan County indicate median household income runs about $80,858, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Grantham Village School is one of 29 public schools in Sullivan County (combined enrollment of about 4,498 students).
Nearest neighbor: Croydon Village School, around 2.9 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Grantham Village School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grantham Village School has increased 25%, going from 206 students in 2018 to 258 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 92% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.
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