Loudon Elementary School

As a mid-tier elementary-level community in Loudon, New Hampshire, Loudon Elementary School serves 243 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Merrimack Valley School District.

Loudon Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Merrimack Valley School District, a district that hosts 2,170 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Loudon Elementary School shows that nearly all students (93%) are White; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Loudon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -10.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Merrimack County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,004, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Merrimack County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students), of which Loudon Elementary School is one.

Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (H) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Loudon Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Loudon Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Loudon Elementary School has fell 10%, going from 270 students in 2018 to 243 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 97% to 93% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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