Hillsboro-Deering High School

Hillsboro-Deering High School is one of the tight-knit high schools in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, part of Hillsboro-Deering Cooperative School District, with 334 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 33% smaller than the state mean of about 496.

Within Hillsboro-Deering Cooperative School District, which oversees 3 schools and 981 students, Hillsboro-Deering High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hillsboro-Deering High School logs that nearly all students (92%) are White; the rest looks like 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. The state averages around 11.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 26%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hillsboro-Deering High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.1%; this one delivers 43.0%.

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 roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hillsborough County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), Hillsboro-Deering High School is one campus in the mix.

Hillsboro-Deering Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hillsboro-Deering High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 342 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.