Moultonborough Central School
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Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientWhat this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Hampshire's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Moultonborough Central School
As an average-sized elementary school in Moultonboro, New Hampshire, Moultonborough Central School instructs 245 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Moultonborough School District.
Moultonborough School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 491 students; Moultonborough Central School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Moultonborough Central School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). The remainder is composed of 2% Hispanic. Compared to Carroll County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Carroll County (around 33%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Moultonborough Central School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 53.2%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Carroll County indicate median household income runs about $86,463, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Carroll County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,659 students), of which Moultonborough Central School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Moultonborough Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Moultonborough Central School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Moultonborough Central School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 48.4%.
The campus sits in a countryside setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Moultonborough Central School has remained close to its prior level, going from 248 students in 2018 to 245 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.
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