Nashua
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 ...
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...