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Public schools in New Hampshire

162,945 pupils attended 501 public schools in New Hampshire in 2024–25, in 212 school districts. Its districts spent $20,500 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $16,398 nationally.

New Hampshire, 2024–25

162.9 thousand
Pupils
162,945
0.3% of the nation's public school pupils.
501
Public schools
Operational public schools in NCES’s 2024–⁠25 directory.
11.2
Pupils per teacher
Over the 496 schools that report both counts; nationally 15.2.
42
Charter schools
3.7% of pupils.
$20,500
Spending per pupil
Current spending over fall membership, fiscal year 2023.

New Hampshire over time

New Hampshire's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 21,282 from its peak in 2014–⁠15 to 2024–⁠25

Public school membership in New Hampshire each fall, 2014–⁠15 to 2024–⁠25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.

Membership is the October 1 count of pupils on a school’s rolls, as the state reported it to NCES.

Every year here reports its pre-kindergarten pupils.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public school membership by state, 2014–15 onwards

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The figures

New Hampshire's public school enrollment excluding pre-kindergarten fell by 21,282 from its peak in 2014–15 to 2024–25. Public school membership in New Hampshire each fall, 2014–15 to 2024–25: all grades, and excluding pre-kindergarten, which is the line the title reads.
School yearAll gradesExcluding pre-kindergartenPre-kindergarten
2014–⁠15184,670181,0313,639
2015–⁠16182,425178,6823,743
2016–⁠17180,888176,9233,965
2017–⁠18179,433175,5263,907
2018–⁠19178,515174,2934,222
2019–⁠20177,351172,8184,533
2020–⁠21169,027166,0952,932
2021–⁠22170,005166,1463,859
2022–⁠23168,909164,5104,399
2023–⁠24166,594162,1384,456
2024–⁠25164,153159,7494,404

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New Hampshire's school districts spent $20,500 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $9,753 in 2005, in each year's dollars

Current spending per pupil in New Hampshire, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.

Not adjusted for inflation: a dollar in 2005 bought more than a dollar in 2023, and this chart does not say how much more.

Each year is the release NCES has published for it: provisional for most, final for fiscal years 2019 to 2022. A final release revises the provisional one by well under 1% nationally.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — every fiscal year in the current format

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The figures

New Hampshire's school districts spent $20,500 per pupil in fiscal year 2023, against $9,753 in 2005, in each year's dollars. Current spending per pupil in New Hampshire, fiscal years 2005 to 2023: current spending over fall membership, summed over every district. In each year’s dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
Fiscal yearPer pupilPupilsRelease
FY2005$9,753202,223Provisional
FY2006$10,401201,044Provisional
FY2007$11,048198,625Provisional
FY2008$11,990195,668Provisional
FY2009$11,987197,024Provisional
FY2010$12,414196,648Provisional
FY2011$12,854194,711Provisional
FY2012$13,592190,782Provisional
FY2013$13,803187,020Provisional
FY2014$14,362184,473Provisional
FY2015$14,718182,774Provisional
FY2016$15,340179,682Provisional
FY2017$15,756177,979Provisional
FY2018$16,159178,926Provisional
FY2019$16,660177,972Final
FY2020$17,053176,687Final
FY2021$18,443168,377Final
FY2022$19,399169,370Final
FY2023$20,500168,294Provisional

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Where New Hampshire’s districts got their money, fiscal year 2023

Revenue of all 317 districts in NCES’s finance file, by source. Nationally, 12.6% came from federal sources.

Local sources gave New Hampshire's school districts 64.4% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023

Revenue of New Hampshire's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — newest fiscal year

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Local sources gave New Hampshire's school districts 64.4% of their revenue in fiscal year 2023. Revenue of New Hampshire's public school districts by source, fiscal year 2023, as a share of their total revenue.
SourceRevenueShare of revenue
Federal$327.9 million8.3%
State$1.1 billion27.3%
Local$2.5 billion64.4%

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The largest districts in New Hampshire

By fall membership in 2024–25. Spending per pupil is the same district’s fiscal year 2023 figure from NCES’s finance file, where it reports one.

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The 10 largest public school districts in New Hampshire, 2024–25
DistrictPupilsSchools
Manchester School District11,94920
Nashua School District9,81321
Bedford School District3,9716
Londonderry School District3,9626
Concord School District3,8527
Rochester School District3,82810
Salem School District3,5608
Dover School District3,5375
Merrimack School District3,4606
Timberlane Regional School District3,2277

City, suburb, town and rural schools in New Hampshire

38.6% of New Hampshire's public school pupils attended rural schools in 2024–⁠25

Pupils in New Hampshire's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–⁠25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.

National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education — NCES Common Core of Data — public schools, newest full school year

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38.6% of New Hampshire's public school pupils attended rural schools in 2024–25. Pupils in New Hampshire's operational public schools by the kind of place each school is in, 2024–25: NCES's twelve locales grouped into city, suburb, town and rural.
LocaleSchoolsShare of schoolsPupilsShare of pupils
City5110.2%23,55514.5%
Suburb10821.6%50,34830.9%
Town8116.2%26,08716.0%
Rural26152.1%62,95538.6%

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Colleges in New Hampshire that take federal student aid

30 colleges in New Hampshire are in NCES’s IPEDS universe for 2025–26: 13 public, 11 private nonprofit and 6 private for-profit. They enrolled 379,167 students over twelve months and awarded 35,106 bachelor’s degrees.

New Hampshire elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crimeCrime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Most dangerous cities in New HampshireCrime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison populationCrime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crimeCrime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligationsFederal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofitsNonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctorsHealth

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loansPPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • Federal civilian workforceFederal salaries

    Federal civilian employees stationed in the state by agency and occupation, with the pay OPM publishes and the share it withholds.

  • The New Hampshire Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration hub has no page for this state: EOIR runs no immigration court here, and CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography. Immigration and the border.

Sources

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25; “School District Finance Survey (F-33),” fiscal year 2023; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).

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