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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...
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.
86 NH Districts Hit Record Lows
Manchester enrolled 11,712 students in fall 2025. 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...
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...