Tuftonboro Central School

Tuftonboro Central School is one of the micro-enrollment primary schools in Ctr. Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, run under Governor Wentworth Regional School District, with 99 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 60% below the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 249 students.

Governor Wentworth Regional School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,077 students; Tuftonboro Central School is among them.

On demographics, Tuftonboro Central School lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Carroll County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Tuftonboro Central School records 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Carroll County (around 33%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Tuftonboro Central School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.3%.

Around the school, Carroll County reports that median household income runs about $86,463, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Carroll County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,659 students), Tuftonboro Central School is one campus in the mix.

Carpenter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tuftonboro Central School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.6%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 117 students in 2018 compared to 99 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 1% to 8%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 in 2025.

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