Oyster River Preschool Education Program

Oyster River Preschool Education Program is a very small K-5 school in Durham, New Hampshire, part of Oyster River Coop School District. The school works with 30 students in grade pre-K. That puts it 88% leaner than the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 249 students.

Oyster River Coop School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,097 students. Oyster River Preschool Education Program is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Oyster River Preschool Education Program logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 3% Native American.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 10% of students at Oyster River Preschool Education Program qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Strafford County's rate of about 26%.

Across the wider county, Strafford County reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,570 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Strafford County runs 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,978 students), of which Oyster River Preschool Education Program is one.

Oyster River High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

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