Monadnock Regional Middle School

As a compact 6-8 campus in E. Swanzey, New Hampshire, Monadnock Regional Middle School works with 249 students from grades 7 through 8, part of Monadnock Regional School District. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 379 students.

Within Monadnock Regional School District, which oversees 7 schools and 1,597 students, Monadnock Regional Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Monadnock Regional Middle School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Cheshire County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.1:1, putting Monadnock Regional Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Monadnock Regional Middle School is in the bottom 10% of New Hampshire public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.8%; Monadnock Regional Middle School posts 30.6%, -13.2 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cheshire County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,329 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cheshire County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,365 students), of which Monadnock Regional Middle School is one.

Monadnock Regional High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monadnock Regional Middle School. On composite proficiency, Monadnock Regional Middle School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 15%: 217 students in 2018 compared to 249 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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