Mt. Pleasant School

Located at 10 Manchester St., in Nashua, New Hampshire, Mt. Pleasant School is a reasonably sized elementary school that hosts 250 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Nashua School District.

Within Nashua School District, which oversees 21 schools and 10,636 students, Mt. Pleasant School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Mt. Pleasant School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 40% White, 12% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Mt. Pleasant School reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Mt. Pleasant School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 26%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mt. Pleasant School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,545, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Hillsborough County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), Mt. Pleasant School is one campus in the mix.

Amherst Street School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mt. Pleasant School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mt. Pleasant School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 28.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mt. Pleasant School's enrollment has contracted 32% since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 250). White enrollment moved from 49% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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