Woodland Heights Elementary School

Set in Laconia, New Hampshire, Woodland Heights Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary campus, run under Laconia School District. It educates 318 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 249 students each, so Woodland Heights Elementary School sits 28% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Laconia School District (1,808 students total), Woodland Heights Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Woodland Heights Elementary School lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 10% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Belknap County's rate of about 29%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Woodland Heights Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.9%; this one delivers 35.2%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Belknap County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,783 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Belknap County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,344 students), Woodland Heights Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Laconia High School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Woodland Heights Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Woodland Heights Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Woodland Heights Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 347 (now 318).

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.