Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford
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Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientWhat this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Hampshire's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford
Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford is one of the low-enrollment K-5 schools in Bradford, New Hampshire, run under Kearsarge Regional School District, with 177 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 249 students per school, that is 29% below typical.
Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford is one of 8 schools operated by Kearsarge Regional School District, a district that educates 1,672 students overall.
On demographics, Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%).
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.2%, the actual is 50.8%, a residual of +2.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Merrimack County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,004, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Merrimack County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students), Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford is one campus in the mix.
Kearsarge Regional Preschool Bradford is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford's enrollment has grew 7% since 2018, when it stood at 166 (now 177).
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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