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Concord's Graduation Crisis: Capital City Drops to 73%, Below Manchester for First Time
For as long as New Hampshire has published graduation data, one thing has been reliably true: Concord graduated a higher share of its students than Manchester. The capital city, home to the statehouse...
Dover's Decade: How One City Climbed to an All-Time High of 91.5%
Correction: This article has been updated to fix several data errors in the original version, including Dover's 2019 graduation rate, the count of districts at all-time lows, dropout rate history, and...
The Shrinking Pipeline: NH Graduating Cohort Has Declined Every Year for a Decade
New Hampshire's Class of 2025 had 12,980 students. The Class of 2015 had 14,780. In every single year between, the cohort shrank — an unbroken ten-year streak of decline with no interruption, no pande...
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.
Manchester's Quiet Turnaround: 4-Year Streak Lifts NH's Largest District
Manchester, the district New Hampshire has spent a generation worrying about, is doing something it has almost never done: getting better.
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...
Only 21 Traditional Districts Are Growing
Bow gained 244 students over 15 years. That makes it the fastest-growing traditional public school district in New Hampshire, a state where 148 of 173 traditional districts have lost enrollment since ...
Concord Lost One in Five Students Since 2012
The city of Concord has gained nearly 2,000 residents since 2014. Its school district has lost more than 1,000 students in roughly the same period. That divergence (a growing city with a shrinking sch...
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...