Great Brook School

Great Brook School is an intimate junior high in Antrim, New Hampshire, operated by Contoocook Valley School District. The school instructs 224 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 379.

Contoocook Valley School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 1,936 students; Great Brook School is among them.

On demographics, Great Brook School records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.3:1. The state averages around 11.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Great Brook School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 40.6%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Hillsborough County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), Great Brook School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Antrim Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Great Brook School. On composite proficiency, Great Brook School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 256 students in 2018 compared to 224 in 2025.

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