Kennett High School

Kennett High School is a high school of mid-sized scale in North Conway, New Hampshire, part of Conway School District, teacheing 642 students in grades 9 through 13. That puts it 29% above the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 496 students.

Within Conway School District, which oversees 7 schools and 1,984 students, Kennett High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Kennett High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 27% of students at Kennett High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kennett High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Carroll County put the typical household earns roughly $86,463 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Carroll County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,659 students), Kennett High School is one campus in the mix.

Northeast Woodland Chartered Public School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kennett High School.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kennett High School has shrank 13%, going from 741 students in 2018 to 642 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 95% to 91%.

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