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Enrollment
344
Elementary
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 249
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANCHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 330459000257
Smyth Road School
245 Bruce Rd., Manchester, NH 03104 · (603) 624-6340 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL344 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of New Hampshire public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.0:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
125 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 9 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 26% smaller than its 4th grade class (76).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
Test scores
NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientEnglish Language Arts
38.0%
NH avg 55.2%
Math
37.0%
NH avg 43.0%
What this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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
37.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.0%
based on NH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 →
Schools most like Smyth Road School
Smyth Road School's state test result (37.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smyth Road School this school | 344 | 36.3% | 37.3% |
| Birch Hill Elementary School Nashua | 332 | 33.7% | 50.2% |
| Highland-Goffes Falls School Manchester | 336 | 32.7% | 45.5% |
| Jewett School Manchester | 443 | 38.4% | 28.8% |
| Weston Elementary School Manchester | 438 | 36.8% | 28.0% |
| Broad Street Elementary School Nashua | 256 | 27.3% | 49.1% |
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 Smyth Road School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Hampshire | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #163 of 209 | #38 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #155 of 209 | #37 of 51 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #175 of 210 | #38 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 344 | #81 of 300 | #35 of 68 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #77 of 179 | #17 of 52 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.8% | #25 of 181 | #25 of 52 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.3% | #69 of 240 | #20 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.3% | #107 of 139 | #32 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
344
-58 (-14%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 580
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 344 | 31.2 | 11.0:1 | 36% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 390 | 30.8 | 12.7:1 | 31% (120) |
| 2022-23 | 426 | 34.4 | 12.4:1 | 36% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 402 | 30 | 13.4:1 | 36% (143) |
| 2017-18 | 375 | 29.4 | 12.8:1 | 42% (158) |
| 2015-16 | 404 | 31 | 13.0:1 | 40% (160) |
| 2010-11 | 424 | 28 | 15.1:1 | 29% (122) |
| 2000-01 | 392 | 24 | 16.3:1 | 11% (44) |
| 1990-91 | 580 | 22 | 26.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Smyth Road School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (375 to 344); teachers up 6% (29.4 to 31.2).
About Smyth Road School
Smyth Road School is one of the public schools in Manchester, New Hampshire. It is a medium-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through 4 attend the school, which enrolls 344 students. The average among elementary schools in New Hampshire is roughly 249 students; this school is 38% larger than that.
Smyth Road School is one school in Manchester School District, a system of 21 schools with 12,295 students.
A majority of students at Smyth Road School, 62%, are White. The rest of enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Black, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Hillsborough County, the White share is about 82%. The chance that two students picked at random at Smyth Road School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 57%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.0:1, with 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in New Hampshire average about 11.0:1, a similar figure. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 36% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Hillsborough County is 26%.
Smyth Road School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 21% of New Hampshire public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Smyth Road School falls in the middle 80% of New Hampshire schools: 37.3% actual against 40.0% predicted.
Hillsborough County census figures show that median household income is about $103,545, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. A total of 127 public schools operate in Hillsborough County, serving about 53,974 students.
The shortest distance from Smyth Road School to another public school is about 0.5 miles, to Hillside Middle School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 5 closest schools with test data, this one included, Smyth Road School ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Smyth Road School inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (City: Mid-size).
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 402 to 344. Federal data show the ratio falling from 13.4:1 to 11.0:1.
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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 Manchester School District
- Manchester Memorial High SchoolHigh · 1,296 students
- Manchester Central High SchoolHigh · 1,130 students
- Hillside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,071 students
- Henry J. McLaughlin Jr. Middle SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Middle School At ParksideMiddle · 775 students
- Southside Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
Other schools in Manchester
- Manchester Memorial High SchoolHigh · 1,296 students
- Manchester Central High SchoolHigh · 1,130 students
- Hillside Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,071 students
- Henry J. McLaughlin Jr. Middle SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Middle School At ParksideMiddle · 775 students
- Southside Middle SchoolMiddle · 768 students
Nearby schools
- Hillside Middle School0.5 mi · 1,071
- McDonough School0.8 mi · 534
- Manchester Central High School1.0 mi · 1,130
- Kreiva Academy Public Charter School (M)1.1 mi · 42
- Kreiva Academy Public Charter School (H)1.1 mi · 76
- Henry Wilson Elementary School1.4 mi · 388
Frequently asked questions
About Smyth Road SchoolHow large is Smyth Road School?
Smyth Road School enrolls approximately 344 students in grades PK-04.
Is Smyth Road School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Smyth Road School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Smyth Road School have?
Smyth Road School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Smyth Road School?
At Smyth Road School, the student body is approximately 62% White, 18% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Smyth Road School public or private?
Smyth Road School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Manchester School District.
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