Newfound Regional High School

Newfound Regional High School is one of the compact four-year high schools in BRISTOL, New Hampshire, one of the schools within Newfound Area School District, with 357 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 13. That puts it 28% leaner than the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 496 students.

Newfound Area School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,152 students. Newfound Regional High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Newfound Regional High School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. The state averages about 11.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Newfound Regional High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of -11.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Grafton County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $88,261 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Grafton County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,161 students), of which Newfound Regional High School is one.

The closest other public school is New Hampton Community School, roughly 1.8 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Newfound Regional High School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.2%.

Newfound Regional High School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 357 in 2025.

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