Highbridge Hill Elementary School

Highbridge Hill Elementary School is an elementary school of average-sized scale in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, run under Mascenic Regional School District, caters to 363 students in grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 46% larger than the state mean of about 249.

Within Mascenic Regional School District, which oversees 3 schools and 875 students, Highbridge Hill Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Highbridge Hill Elementary School records that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Highbridge Hill Elementary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Highbridge Hill Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 53.2%, a residual of +7.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household income runs about $103,545, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), of which Highbridge Hill Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Mascenic Regional High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 5 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), Highbridge Hill Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 422 students in 2018 compared to 363 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.