Grinnell School

Grinnell School is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Derry, New Hampshire, one of the schools within Derry Cooperative School District, with 338 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 249 students each, so Grinnell School sits 36% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Derry Cooperative School District, which oversees 9 schools and 3,906 students, Grinnell School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Grinnell School lists that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 91% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 32% of students at Grinnell School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Rockingham County runs at roughly 13%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Grinnell School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Rockingham County indicate the typical household earns roughly $118,331 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Rockingham County's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,753 students), Grinnell School is one campus in the mix.

Derry Early Education Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grinnell School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.7%.

Grinnell School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 338 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 80% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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