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20 New Hampshire Districts Hit All-Time Low Graduation Rates in 2025
Something went wrong across New Hampshire in 2025 — not in one district, not in one region, but everywhere.
Bedford and Londonderry: Affluent Suburbs Join the Graduation Slide
When graduation rates decline, the assumption is that the damage concentrates in under-resourced districts — cities with high poverty, thin tax bases, and the chronic challenges that come with both. N...
New Hampshire's Graduation Rate Crashes 1.6 Points After Hitting 11-Year Peak
New Hampshire spent a decade inching its graduation rate upward, through a pandemic, through the nation's steepest enrollment decline, through chronic absenteeism rates that doubled. By 2024, the stat...
86 NH Districts Hit Record Lows
Manchester enrolled 11,712 students this fall. Nashua enrolled 9,501. Both are the lowest totals either district has posted in 15 years of state enrollment data. They are not outliers. They are not ev...
COVID Erased Four Years of Decline in a Single Year
New Hampshire's public schools had been bleeding students for years before the pandemic. Between 2016 and 2020, the state lost 5,171 students across four school years, a steady trickle of roughly 1,30...