Walpole Elementary School

Located at 8 Bemis Ln., in Walpole, New Hampshire, Walpole Elementary School is a very small middle school that educates 123 students (grades 5 through 8), part of Fall Mountain Regional School District. Compared to the state average of about 379 students per school, that is 68% below typical.

Within Fall Mountain Regional School District, which oversees 12 schools and 1,420 students, Walpole Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Walpole Elementary School shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.1:1, putting Walpole Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 22% of students at Walpole Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Walpole Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 52.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Cheshire County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,329 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Cheshire County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,365 students), of which Walpole Elementary School is one.

Walpole Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Walpole Elementary School.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Walpole Elementary School's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 141 (now 123). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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