Lafayette Regional School

Lafayette Regional School is an elementary campus of tiny scale in Franconia, New Hampshire, operated by Lafayette Regional School District, instructing 98 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 249 students each, so Lafayette Regional School sits 61% below that benchmark.

Operationally, Lafayette Regional School answers to Lafayette Regional School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Lafayette Regional School logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Grafton County runs at roughly 25%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Lafayette Regional School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.0%; this one delivers 67.6%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Grafton County put median household income runs about $88,261, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Grafton County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,161 students), Lafayette Regional School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Profile Junior High School, around 2.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Lafayette Regional School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lafayette Regional School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 124 students in 2018 compared to 98 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment fell from 6% to 0% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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