Pollard Elementary School

Pollard Elementary School operates as a sprawling elementary school in Plaistow, New Hampshire, run under Timberlane Regional School District. Current enrollment sits at 434 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 249 students each, so Pollard Elementary School sits 74% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Timberlane Regional School District, which oversees 7 schools and 3,224 students, Pollard Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Pollard Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 17% of students at Pollard Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Pollard Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.8%; this one comes in at 38.6%, -14.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Rockingham County) logs that median household income runs about $118,331, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Rockingham County's 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,753 students), Pollard Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Timberlane Regional High School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pollard Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Pollard Elementary School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Pollard Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 467 (now 434). The White share of enrollment fell from 94% to 80% over that span.

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