Somersworth Middle School

Somersworth Middle School is a small 6-8 campus in Somersworth, New Hampshire, one of the schools within Somersworth School District. The school hosts 286 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 25% leaner than typical.

Somersworth Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by Somersworth School District, a district that works with 1,311 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Somersworth Middle School records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% multiracial, 8% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Somersworth Middle School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.1:1 average. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Strafford County's rate of about 26%.

With demographic context factored in, Somersworth Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Strafford County shows median household income runs about $88,570, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Strafford County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,978 students), Somersworth Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Somersworth High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Somersworth Middle School. On composite proficiency, Somersworth Middle School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 350 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.