Mary A. Fisk Elementary School

As a mid-tier elementary school in Salem, New Hampshire, Mary A. Fisk Elementary School instructs 272 students from grades K through 5, part of Salem School District.

Salem School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,557 students; Mary A. Fisk Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mary A. Fisk Elementary School logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 91% White, putting the school's mix considerably 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 11.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mary A. Fisk Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.2%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Rockingham County put the typical household earns roughly $118,331 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Mary A. Fisk Elementary School is one of 99 public schools in Rockingham County (combined enrollment of about 41,753 students).

William E. Lancaster School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mary A. Fisk Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.

Mary A. Fisk Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mary A. Fisk Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 273 students in 2018 to 272 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 77% to 71%.

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