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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Peter Woodbury School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
428
Elementary
DISTRICT 448 · STATE 249
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BEDFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 330174000019
Peter Woodbury School
180 County Rd., Bedford, NH 03110 · (603) 622-0431 · Hillsborough County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL428 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of New Hampshire public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Hampshire public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
32 students
DISTRICT 7% · STATE 26%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 24% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 36% smaller than its 4th grade class (101).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 33% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Bedford School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientEnglish Language Arts
82.0%
NH avg 55.2%
Math
87.0%
NH avg 43.0%
What this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Hampshire schools, those numbers are about 55 and 43.
Source: NHSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
83.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.7%
based on NH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in New Hampshire's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Peter Woodbury School
Peter Woodbury School's state test result (83.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Woodbury School this school | 428 | 7.5% | 83.2% |
| Bernice A. Ray School Hanover | 463 | 3.7% | 77.1% |
| Mary C. Dondero Elementary School Portsmouth | 328 | 13.7% | 75.6% |
| Memorial School Bedford | 439 | 11.6% | N/A |
| Little Harbour School Portsmouth | 325 | 12.3% | 77.0% |
| The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch Salem | 286 | 8.0% | 50.2% |
Matched among New Hampshire elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Peter Woodbury School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Hampshire | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.2% | #2 of 209 | #2 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #2 of 209 | #1 of 51 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.0% | #5 of 210 | #2 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 428 | #36 of 300 | #19 of 68 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #169 of 179 | #48 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.1% | #40 of 181 | #29 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.5% | #212 of 240 | #55 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.6% | #39 of 139 | #15 of 40 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
428
-50 (-10%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 428 | 29 | 14.8:1 | 7% (32) |
| 2023-24 | 421 | 31 | 13.6:1 | 6% (25) |
| 2022-23 | 450 | 33 | 13.6:1 | 7% (33) |
| 2020-21 | 478 | 34 | 14.1:1 | 4% (20) |
| 2017-18 | 526 | 34.5 | 15.3:1 | 4% (21) |
| 2015-16 | 566 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 6% (33) |
| 2010-11 | 540 | 35 | 15.4:1 | 6% (30) |
| 2000-01 | 712 | 39 | 18.3:1 | 1% (9) |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 23 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Peter Woodbury School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (526 to 428); teachers down 16% (34.5 to 29).
About Peter Woodbury School
Peter Woodbury School is a public elementary school in Bedford, New Hampshire. There are 428 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 4. That puts enrollment 72% above the 249-student average for elementary schools in New Hampshire.
Bedford School District is the district for Peter Woodbury School. It has 6 schools and 3,970 students.
More than half of the students at Peter Woodbury School are White (75%). Beyond that, enrollment is 13% Asian, 6% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 42%.
On staff are 29 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.8:1. Elementary schools in New Hampshire average 11.0:1, 3.8 fewer students per teacher than here. Peter Woodbury School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 7%. That is lower than the 26% average for public schools in Hillsborough County.
Peter Woodbury School holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 99% of New Hampshire public elementary schools.
Peter Woodbury School is a top-10% school in New Hampshire on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 58.7% with an actual 83.2%.
For Hillsborough County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $103,545, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 127 public schools in the county, enrolling about 53,974, Peter Woodbury School among them.
Of the public schools around it, Peter Woodbury School is closest to McKelvie Intermediate School, about 1.1 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Peter Woodbury School's average proficiency of 83.2% compares with 49.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Federal data place Peter Woodbury School in the Suburb: Mid-size locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 478 to 428, a 10% decline.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Peter Woodbury School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
426,378
Census ACS
Median income
$103,545
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
127
53,974 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bedford School District
- Bedford High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Ross A. Lurgio Middle SchoolMiddle · 646 students
- McKelvie Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 619 students
- Riddle Brook SchoolElementary · 478 students
- Memorial SchoolElementary · 439 students
Other schools in Bedford
- Bedford High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Ross A. Lurgio Middle SchoolMiddle · 646 students
- McKelvie Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 619 students
- Riddle Brook SchoolElementary · 478 students
- Memorial SchoolElementary · 439 students
Nearby schools
- McKelvie Intermediate School1.1 mi · 619
- Highland-Goffes Falls School1.8 mi · 336
- Bedford High School1.9 mi · 1,360
- Ross A. Lurgio Middle School1.9 mi · 646
- Memorial School2.2 mi · 439
- The Founders Academy Charter School (E)2.3 mi · 279
Frequently asked questions
About Peter Woodbury SchoolHow many students attend Peter Woodbury School?
Peter Woodbury School enrolls approximately 428 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Peter Woodbury School serve?
Peter Woodbury School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many teachers does Peter Woodbury School have?
Peter Woodbury School employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Peter Woodbury School?
Student demographics at Peter Woodbury School are roughly 75% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 13% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Peter Woodbury School in?
Peter Woodbury School is part of Bedford School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.