Simonds Elementary School

Simonds Elementary School is one of the small elementary-level communitys in Warner, New Hampshire, operated by Kearsarge Regional School District, with 132 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 249 students.

Simonds Elementary School is one of 8 schools operated by Kearsarge Regional School District, a district that works with 1,672 students overall.

On demographics, Simonds Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school logs 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Merrimack County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Simonds Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.3%; this one delivers 59.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Merrimack County shows median household earnings sit near $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%. Across Merrimack County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students), Simonds Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Webster Elementary School, roughly 5.3 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Simonds Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Simonds Elementary School's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 162 (now 132). Class-load math has narrowed: from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

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