Maple Wood Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary campus in Somersworth, New Hampshire, Maple Wood Elementary School serves 285 students from grades 3 through 5, run under Somersworth School District.

Across the 4 schools in Somersworth School District (1,311 students total), Maple Wood Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maple Wood Elementary School records that 72% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 10% multiracial, 8% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Strafford County's rate of about 26%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Maple Wood Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 28.6%.

In the broader community, Strafford County reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,570 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Strafford County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,978 students), of which Maple Wood Elementary School is one.

Somersworth Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maple Wood Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Maple Wood Elementary School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 41.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.