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Kearsarge Regional Middle School
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Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientWhat this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Regional Middle School
Kearsarge Regional Middle School is a 6-8 campus of reasonably sized scale in North Sutton, New Hampshire, one of the schools within Kearsarge Regional School District, instructing 410 students in grades 6 through 8.
Kearsarge Regional Middle School is one of 8 schools operated by Kearsarge Regional School District, a district that instructs 1,672 students overall.
On demographics, Kearsarge Regional Middle School reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.1:1, putting Kearsarge Regional Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Merrimack County's rate of about 25%.
After controlling for student poverty, Kearsarge Regional Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.4%; this one delivers 48.8%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Merrimack County put the typical household earns roughly $97,004 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Merrimack County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students), Kearsarge Regional Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Kearsarge Regional High School, around 1.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kearsarge Regional Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Kearsarge Regional Middle School's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 425 (now 410).
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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- Kearsarge Regional High SchoolHigh · 485 students
- Kearsarge Reg. Elem. School at New LondonElementary · 330 students
- Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - BradfordElementary · 177 students
- Simonds Elementary SchoolElementary · 132 students
- Sutton Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 87 students
- Kearsarge Regional Preschool BradfordElementary · 29 students
- Kearsarge Regional High School1.3 mi · 485
- Sutton Central Elementary School1.6 mi · 87
- Kearsarge Reg. Elem. School at New London5.6 mi · 330
- Kearsarge Regional Preschool Bradford5.6 mi · 29
- Kearsarge Reg. Elementary School - Bradford5.6 mi · 177
- Kearsarge Regional Preschool New London5.7 mi · 22