Kearsarge Regional High School

Kearsarge Regional High School is a mid-tier four-year high school in North Sutton, New Hampshire, overseen by Kearsarge Regional School District. The school hosts 485 students in grades 9 through 13.

Kearsarge Regional School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 1,672 students. Kearsarge Regional High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Kearsarge Regional High School records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. Compared to Merrimack County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school employs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.2:1 average. Roughly 8% of students at Kearsarge Regional High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Merrimack County's rate of about 25%.

With demographic context factored in, Kearsarge Regional High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 58.2%; this one comes in at 44.0%, -14.2 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Merrimack County indicate median household income runs about $97,004, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Merrimack County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students), of which Kearsarge Regional High School is one.

The closest other public school is Kearsarge Regional Middle School, roughly 1.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Kearsarge Regional High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kearsarge Regional High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.9%.

Kearsarge Regional High School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 534 students in 2018 compared to 485 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 96% to 90%.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.