New Durham Elementary School

Set in New Durham, New Hampshire, New Durham Elementary School is a modestly sized K-5 school, part of Governor Wentworth Regional School District. It works with 144 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 42% below the state mean of about 249.

Governor Wentworth Regional School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,077 students. New Durham Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, New Durham Elementary School reports that nearly all students (92%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting New Durham Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at New Durham Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, New Durham Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Strafford County put the typical household earns roughly $88,570 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. New Durham Elementary School is one of 39 public schools in Strafford County (combined enrollment of about 13,978 students).

The closest other public school is Prospect Mountain High School, roughly 2.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around New Durham Elementary School. On composite proficiency, New Durham Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

New Durham Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Durham Elementary School has ticked down 12%, going from 164 students in 2018 to 144 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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