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Laconia High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Laconia High School
Laconia High School, a middle-of-the-pack senior high in Laconia, New Hampshire, operated by Laconia School District, instructs 562 students, covering grades 9 through 13.
Laconia School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,808 students. Laconia High School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Laconia High School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.2:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, Laconia High School is in the bottom 10% of New Hampshire public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.1%; Laconia High School posts 27.0%, -14.1 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Belknap County) records that the typical household earns roughly $92,783 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Belknap County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,344 students), Laconia High School is one campus in the mix.
Laconia Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Laconia High School. On composite proficiency, Laconia High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.
Laconia High School operates from a town-center location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 562 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 90% to 86%.
Inside the community feed, the feed for Laconia High School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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