Hopkinton Middle School

Set in Contoocook, New Hampshire, Hopkinton Middle School is a close-knit middle-grades school, one of the schools within Hopkinton School District. It hosts 165 students across grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 56% smaller than the state mean of about 379.

Hopkinton School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 937 students. Hopkinton Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hopkinton Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest consists of 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Merrimack County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 5% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Merrimack County's rate of about 25%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hopkinton Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.5%; this one delivers 64.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Merrimack County) reports that median household income runs about $97,004, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Hopkinton Middle School is one of 61 public schools in Merrimack County (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students).

The closest other public school is Hopkinton High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Hopkinton Middle School. On composite proficiency, Hopkinton Middle School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hopkinton Middle School has fell 4%, going from 172 students in 2018 to 165 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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