Wheelock Elementary School

Wheelock Elementary School, a modestly sized elementary school in Keene, New Hampshire, overseen by Keene School District, enrolls 192 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 23% below the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 249 students.

Within Keene School District, which oversees 7 schools and 3,007 students, Wheelock Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Wheelock Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Wheelock Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at Wheelock Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cheshire County (around 30%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Wheelock Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of New Hampshire public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 28.1%; Wheelock Elementary School posts 45.0%, +16.9 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cheshire County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,329, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wheelock Elementary School is one of 41 public schools in Cheshire County (combined enrollment of about 8,365 students).

Nearest neighbor: Making Community Connections Charter School - Monadnock, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wheelock Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Wheelock Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 202 (now 192). Class-load math has tightened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Wheelock Elementary School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.