Mason Elementary School
Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientWhat this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Hampshire schools, those numbers are about 55 and 43.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in New Hampshire's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mason Elementary School
Mason Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment primary school in Mason, New Hampshire, part of Mason School District. Current enrollment sits at 106 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 57% leaner than the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 249 students.
Mason Elementary School sits inside Mason School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On demographics, Mason Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder breaks down as 4% Asian. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Mason Elementary School has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hillsborough County (around 26%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Mason Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 55.6%; this one delivers 80.9%, a residual of +25.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household earnings sit near $103,545, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mason Elementary School is one of 127 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students).
Nearest neighbor: Mascenic Regional High School, around 2.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Mason Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mason Elementary School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Five-year trend. Mason Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 39% since 2018, when it stood at 76 (now 106). The White share of enrollment grew from 91% to 95% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.
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