Woodman Park School

Woodman Park School is one of the sprawling primary schools in Dover, New Hampshire, run under Dover School District, with 421 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 249 students per school, that is 69% larger than typical.

Across the 5 schools in Dover School District (3,498 students total), Woodman Park School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Woodman Park School logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 12% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Strafford County runs at roughly 26%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Woodman Park School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Strafford County) logs that median household earnings sit near $88,570, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Woodman Park School is one of 39 public schools in Strafford County (combined enrollment of about 13,978 students).

Nearest neighbor: Dover Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Woodman Park School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 53.6%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodman Park School has fell 20%, going from 525 students in 2018 to 421 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 77% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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