Northwood Elementary School

Northwood Elementary School is a well-populated elementary school in Northwood, New Hampshire, operated by Northwood School District. The school instructs 413 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 249 students per school, that is 66% larger than typical.

Northwood School District is the operating authority for Northwood Elementary School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Northwood Elementary School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Rockingham County as a whole.

On the resource side, Northwood Elementary School lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting Northwood Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Northwood Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.3%, the actual is 48.5%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Rockingham County shows the typical household earns roughly $118,331 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Rockingham County's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,753 students), Northwood Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, roughly 1.9 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northwood Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 8%: 381 students in 2018 compared to 413 in 2025.

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