Pelham Elementary School

As a sizable elementary campus in Pelham, New Hampshire, Pelham Elementary School serves 750 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Pelham School District. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 249 students each, so Pelham Elementary School sits 201% above that benchmark.

Pelham School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,607 students. Pelham Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Pelham Elementary School lists that nearly all students (83%) are White; the rest consists of 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Pelham Elementary School has 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hillsborough County (around 26%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Pelham Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.3%, the actual is 56.9%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the broader community, Hillsborough County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,545 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hillsborough County runs 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), of which Pelham Elementary School is one.

Pelham Memorial School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pelham Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pelham Elementary School has declined 4%, going from 784 students in 2018 to 750 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Pelham Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.