Manchester Memorial High School

Manchester Memorial High School is a well-populated 9-12 campus in Manchester, New Hampshire, operated by Manchester School District. The school works with 1,296 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 161% above the state mean of about 496.

Within Manchester School District, which oversees 21 schools and 12,295 students, Manchester Memorial High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Manchester Memorial High School records that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Manchester Memorial High School records 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.2:1 average. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Manchester Memorial High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.5%; this one comes in at 23.0%, -21.5 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $103,545 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), of which Manchester Memorial High School is one.

Southside Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Manchester Memorial High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Manchester Memorial High School's enrollment has decreased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,400 (now 1,296). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 65% to 54% over that span.

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