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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...
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.
NH Pre-K Enrollment Up 39% as K-12 Shrinks
Every grade band in New Hampshire is shrinking. Elementary enrollment is down 18.6% since 2012. High school is down 18.4%. Kindergarten is down 9.9%. The state has lost 30,483 students overall, a 16% ...
One in Five NH Districts Has Fewer Than 100 Students
Errol has 12 students. Landaff has 15. Jackson has 26. Each is a legally independent school district in New Hampshire, with its own school board, its own budget, its own vote at town meeting. Each edu...
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...
Nashua Falls Below 10,000 Students
For 14 years, Nashua was a five-digit school district. The state's second-largest, with nearly 12,000 students in 2012, it was the kind of system that could absorb a bad year and still fill its buildi...
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...
Manchester Has Lost Nearly a Quarter of Its Students
In 2011-12, Manchester enrolled 15,536 students. This fall, 11,712 showed up. The district has lost 3,824 students, a 24.6% decline, in a state where every district but one with more than 2,000 studen...