Northwest Elementary School

Northwest Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school in Manchester, New Hampshire, one of the schools within Manchester School District. The school instructs 487 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 96% above the state mean of about 249.

Manchester School District comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 12,295 students; Northwest Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northwest Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 23% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 10% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Northwest Elementary School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting Northwest Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 26%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Northwest Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.5%; this one delivers 29.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) records that median household income runs about $103,545, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Northwest Elementary School is one of 127 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students).

Polaris Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northwest Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 29%: 683 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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