Groveton Elementary School
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Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientWhat this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% 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 17 points, placing it in New Hampshire's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Groveton Elementary School
As a small elementary campus in Groveton, New Hampshire, Groveton Elementary School instructs 116 students from grades K through 5, part of Northumberland School District. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 249 students each, so Groveton Elementary School sits 53% below that benchmark.
Across the 3 schools in Northumberland School District (316 students total), Groveton Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Groveton Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%).
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, Groveton Elementary School sits in the top 10% of New Hampshire schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 30.6%; actual is 47.4%, +16.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Coos County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $57,677 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Coos County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,254 students), of which Groveton Elementary School is one.
Groveton High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Groveton Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Groveton Elementary School at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 31.7%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Groveton Elementary School has contracted 9%, going from 127 students in 2018 to 116 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.
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