Mascoma Valley Regional High School

Mascoma Valley Regional High School is one of the close-knit senior highs in Canaan, New Hampshire, one of the schools within Mascoma Valley Regional School District, with 303 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 39% smaller than the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 496 students.

Mascoma Valley Regional School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,026 students. Mascoma Valley Regional High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mascoma Valley Regional High School records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.2:1, putting Mascoma Valley Regional High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Mascoma Valley Regional High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.3%.

In the surrounding community, Grafton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,261 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Grafton County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,161 students), of which Mascoma Valley Regional High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Indian River School, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mascoma Valley Regional High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Mascoma Valley Regional High School's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 341 (now 303).

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