Enrollment
344
Middle
DISTRICT 372 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LITCHFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 330435000514
Litchfield Middle School
19 McElwain Dr., Litchfield, NH 03052 · (603) 424-0566 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL344 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of New Hampshire public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Hampshire public middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 11.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
38 students
DISTRICT 13% · STATE 26%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 84 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 88 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 92 | 27% |
| Grade 8 | 80 | 23% |
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 33% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Litchfield Middle School→Campbell High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Litchfield School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientEnglish Language Arts
54.0%
NH avg 55.2%
Math
31.0%
NH avg 43.0%
What this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Hampshire schools, those numbers are about 55 and 43.
Source: NHSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.4%
based on NH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 56% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Litchfield Middle School
Litchfield Middle School's state test result (41.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Litchfield Middle School this school | 344 | 11.0% | 41.5% |
| Pelham Memorial School Pelham | 349 | 11.5% | 34.9% |
| Hampstead Middle School Hampstead | 352 | 12.2% | 50.7% |
| Sanborn Regional Middle School Kingston | 251 | 10.0% | 42.2% |
| Merrimack Middle School Merrimack | 480 | 10.6% | 44.3% |
| David R. Cawley Middle School Hooksett | 428 | 15.9% | 57.9% |
Matched among New Hampshire middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Litchfield Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Hampshire | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #53 of 85 | #14 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #58 of 85 | #17 of 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #45 of 85 | #12 of 27 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 344 | #49 of 101 | #21 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.6:1 | #48 of 74 | #16 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.2% | #34 of 74 | #16 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.0% | #71 of 90 | #21 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #16 of 57 | #6 of 17 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
344
-17 (-5%) vs 2020
+33% since 1990-91, when it was 259
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 344 | 29.7 | 11.6:1 | 11% (38) |
| 2023-24 | 351 | 30.5 | 11.5:1 | 8% (27) |
| 2022-23 | 355 | 30 | 11.8:1 | 9% (33) |
| 2020-21 | 361 | 31 | 11.7:1 | 9% (32) |
| 2017-18 | 418 | 33.7 | 12.4:1 | 8% (33) |
| 2015-16 | 457 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 10% (45) |
| 2010-11 | 525 | 37 | 14.2:1 | 10% (53) |
| 2000-01 | 526 | 33 | 15.9:1 | 3% (18) |
| 1990-91 | 259 | 13 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Litchfield Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (418 to 344); teachers down 12% (33.7 to 29.7).
About Litchfield Middle School
Litchfield Middle School is a medium-sized middle school in Litchfield, New Hampshire, one of the schools in Litchfield School District. The school enrolls 344 students, from grades 5 through 8.
Litchfield Middle School is part of Litchfield School District, where 3 schools serve 1,115 students.
White students make up 85% of enrollment at Litchfield Middle School. Smaller groups are 6% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. For comparison, Hillsborough County is about 82% White. The school's diversity index is 26%, meaning two students picked at random have a 26% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Litchfield Middle School's 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 11.6:1. For comparison, middle schools in New Hampshire average 11.1:1. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 11%. That is 15 points below the 26% average for public schools in Hillsborough County.
Litchfield Middle School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 22% of New Hampshire public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with New Hampshire schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Litchfield Middle School scores 14.9 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 41.5%; the prediction is 56.4%.
Hillsborough County has about 426,378 residents, and the median household income is $103,545, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Litchfield Middle School, Hillsborough County has 126 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is Griffin Memorial School, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Litchfield Middle School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Litchfield Middle School the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Litchfield Middle School's enrollment declined from 361 in 2020-21 to 344 in 2024-25.
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Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
426,378
Census ACS
Median income
$103,545
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
127
53,974 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Litchfield School District
- Griffin Memorial SchoolElementary · 428 students
- Campbell High SchoolHigh · 343 students
Other schools in Litchfield
- Griffin Memorial SchoolElementary · 428 students
- Campbell High SchoolHigh · 343 students
Other Litchfield Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Litchfield Middle. Litchfield Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Litchfield Middle SchoolLITCHFIELD, MN · 494 students
- Litchfield Middle SchoolLitchfield, IL · 282 students
- Litchfield Middle SchoolGadsden, AL · 252 students
- Litchfield Middle SchoolLitchfield, CT · 147 students
Nearby schools
- Griffin Memorial School0.4 mi · 428
- Campbell High School1.7 mi · 343
- Merrimack High School1.9 mi · 1,057
- James Mastricola Elementary School2.2 mi · 375
- James Mastricola Upper Elementary School2.3 mi · 533
- Gate City Charter School for the Arts2.6 mi · 160
Frequently asked questions
About Litchfield Middle SchoolHow large is Litchfield Middle School?
Litchfield Middle School enrolls approximately 344 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Litchfield Middle School serve?
Litchfield Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Litchfield Middle School?
Approximately 11.6:1 students per teacher at Litchfield Middle School.
How diverse is Litchfield Middle School?
Litchfield Middle School reports a student body of 85% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Litchfield Middle School in?
Litchfield Middle School is part of Litchfield School District.
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