Lin-Wood Public School (Middle)
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Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientWhat this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Lin-Wood Public School (Middle)
Lin-Wood Public School (Middle) operates as a micro-enrollment 6-8 campus in Lincoln, New Hampshire, overseen by Lincoln-Woodstock Cooperative School District. Current enrollment sits at 58 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 85% smaller than the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 379 students.
Lin-Wood Public School (Middle) is one of 3 schools operated by Lincoln-Woodstock Cooperative School District, a district that instructs 241 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Lin-Wood Public School (Middle) logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%).
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 19% of students at Lin-Wood Public School (Middle) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lin-Wood Public School (Middle) sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.3%; this one delivers 58.1%.
Across the wider county, census data for Grafton County shows median household income runs about $88,261, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Grafton County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,161 students), of which Lin-Wood Public School (Middle) is one.
Lin-Wood Public School (High) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lin-Wood Public School (Middle). On composite proficiency, Lin-Wood Public School (Middle) comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lin-Wood Public School (Middle) has fell 6%, going from 62 students in 2018 to 58 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged up from 81% to 93% over that span.
Inside the community feed, the feed for Lin-Wood Public School (Middle) typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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