New Searles School

New Searles School is an average-sized K-5 school in Nashua, New Hampshire, one of the schools within Nashua School District. The school works with 256 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Nashua School District runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 10,636 students. New Searles School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, New Searles School lists that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, New Searles School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Searles School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 61.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,545 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hillsborough County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), New Searles School is one campus in the mix.

Bicentennial Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Searles School. On composite proficiency, New Searles School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 32%: 376 students in 2018 compared to 256 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 68% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

On this page, members of the New Searles School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.