Rye Junior High School

Set in Rye, New Hampshire, Rye Junior High School is a modestly sized junior high, one of the schools within Rye School District. It works with 175 students across grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 54% below typical.

Rye School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 386 students; Rye Junior High School is among them.

Demographically, Rye Junior High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest reads as 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Rockingham County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.1:1 average. An estimated 2% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Rockingham County (around 13%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rye Junior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.5%, the actual is 69.2%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the broader community, Rockingham County reports that the typical household earns roughly $118,331 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Rockingham County runs 99 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,753 students), of which Rye Junior High School is one.

The closest other public school is Rye Elementary School, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rye Junior High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 71.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Rye Junior High School's enrollment has increased 33% since 2018, when it stood at 132 (now 175).

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