Enrollment
215
Elementary
DISTRICT 160 · STATE 249
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PITTSFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 330573000509
Pittsfield Elementary School
34 Bow St., Pittsfield, NH 03263 · (603) 435-8432 · Merrimack County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL215 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
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Teacher data unavailable
STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
120 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 26%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
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NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientEnglish Language Arts
30.0%
NH avg 55.2%
Math
23.0%
NH avg 43.0%
What this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.4%
based on NH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Hampshire's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
215
-116 (-35%) vs 2017
% White
91%
was 90%
% Hispanic
2%
was 6%
% Black
1%
was 2%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Pittsfield Elementary School
Pittsfield Elementary School operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, run under Pittsfield School District. Current enrollment sits at 215 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Pittsfield School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 479 students. Pittsfield Elementary School is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Pittsfield Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder is composed of 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Roughly 56% of students at Pittsfield Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Merrimack County (around 25%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pittsfield Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of +1.4 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Merrimack County put median household income runs about $97,004, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Pittsfield Elementary School is one of 61 public schools in Merrimack County (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students).
The closest other public school is Pittsfield High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pittsfield Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Pittsfield Elementary School's enrollment has fell 35% since 2018, when it stood at 331 (now 215).
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Merrimack County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
155,967
Census ACS
Median income
$97,004
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
17,429 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pittsfield School District
- Pittsfield High SchoolHigh · 161 students
- Pittsfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 103 students
Other schools in Pittsfield
- Pittsfield High SchoolHigh · 161 students
- Pittsfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 103 students
Nearby schools
- Pittsfield High School0.1 mi · 161
- Pittsfield Middle School0.1 mi · 103
- Barnstead Elementary School4.0 mi · 449
- Chichester Central School4.7 mi · 192
- Epsom Central School7.0 mi · 378
- Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M)7.1 mi · 52
Frequently asked questions
About Pittsfield Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Pittsfield Elementary School?
Pittsfield Elementary School enrolls approximately 215 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Pittsfield Elementary School serve?
Pittsfield Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student diversity at Pittsfield Elementary School?
Student demographics at Pittsfield Elementary School are roughly 91% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Two or more.
Is Pittsfield Elementary School public or private?
Pittsfield Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pittsfield School District.
What county does Pittsfield Elementary School serve?
Pittsfield Elementary School serves Merrimack County in NH.
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