Ossipee Central School

Ossipee Central School is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Ctr. Ossipee, New Hampshire, overseen by Governor Wentworth Regional School District, caters to 276 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 8 schools in Governor Wentworth Regional School District (2,077 students total), Ossipee Central School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Ossipee Central School records that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ossipee Central School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Carroll County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ossipee Central School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.5%; this one delivers 37.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Carroll County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $86,463 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Carroll County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,659 students), Ossipee Central School is one campus in the mix.

Effingham Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Ossipee Central School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 300 students in 2018 compared to 276 in 2025.

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