Best Middle Schools in New Hampshire for Special Education Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in New Hampshire!

Every year, the New Hampshire Department of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Special Education students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish New Hampshire test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the NH SAS test scores by the New Hampshire Department of Education. The most recent update was on Monday, September 9, 2024.

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)							Ranking (Special Education vs All Students - 2024)
ID	Rank (of 48)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Special Education)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Special Education)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
330267000095	1	Frances C. Richmond School	Public	6-8	63 Lyme Rd.	Hanover	03755	Grafton County	Dresden School District	No	No	No	Yes	(603) 643-6040	364	40	9	1.9%	293 (80.5%)	7 (1.9%)	16 (4.4%)	28 (7.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	20 (5.5%)	$21,203							97.9%	99.2%	1.31%
330390000052	2	Hopkinton Middle School	Public	7-8	297 Park Ave.	Contoocook	03229	Merrimack County	Hopkinton School District	No	No	No	No	(603) 746-4167	168	16	10.3	4.2%	154 (91.7%)	1 (0.6%)	5 (3.0%)	1 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.6%)	6 (3.6%)	$17,820							95.8%	82.3%	13.53%
330582000378	3	Portsmouth Middle School	Public	6-8	155 Parrott Ave.	Portsmouth	03801	Rockingham County	Portsmouth School District	No	No	No	No	(603) 436-5781	472	47	10	14.0%	355 (75.2%)	6 (1.3%)	22 (4.7%)	34 (7.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	55 (11.7%)	$19,555							93.8%	92.3%	1.44%
330195000029	4	Bow Memorial School	Public	5-8	20 Bow Center Rd.	Bow	03304	Merrimack County	Bow School District	No	No	No	No	(603) 225-3212	530	41	12.9	5.3%	489 (92.3%)	2 (0.4%)	17 (3.2%)	5 (0.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	17 (3.2%)	$16,836							91.7%	76.9%	14.74%
330717000495	5	Windham Middle School	Public	7-8	112A Lowell Rd.	Windham	03087	Rockingham County	Windham School District	No	No	No	No	(603) 845-1556	425	34	12.5	2.1%	331 (77.9%)	4 (0.9%)	17 (4.0%)	27 (6.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	46 (10.8%)	$15,858							89.6%	97.7%	8.11%
330552000355	6	Oyster River Middle School	Public	5-8	1 Coe Dr.	Durham	03824	Strafford County	Oyster River Coop School District	No	No	No	No	(603) 868-2155	618	57	10.8	10.5%	520 (84.1%)	7 (1.1%)	13 (2.1%)	45 (7.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	33 (5.3%)	$19,012							87.5%	95.4%	7.88%
330385000172	7	Hollis-Brookline Middle School	Public	7-8	25 Main St.	Hollis	03049	Hillsborough County	Hollis-Brookline Cooperative School District	No	No	No	No	(603) 324-5997	369	35	10.6	5.7%	333 (90.2%)	2 (0.5%)	7 (1.9%)	14 (3.8%)	1 (0.3%)	1 (0.3%)	11 (3.0%)	$17,320							85.4%	90.0%	4.58%
330348000468	8	Hampstead Middle School	Public	5-8	28 School St.	Hampstead	03841	Rockingham County	Hampstead School District	No	No	No	No	(603) 329-6743	344	36	9.5	7.6%	311 (90.4%)	0 (0.0%)	19 (5.5%)	1 (0.3%)	1 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	12 (3.5%)	$21,998							83.3%	70.8%	12.56%
330001700107	9	Cooperative Middle School	Public	6-8	100 Academic Way	Stratham	03885	Rockingham County	Exeter Region Cooperative School District	No	No	No	Yes	(603) 775-8700	923	95	9.7	10.6%	822 (89.1%)	13 (1.4%)	24 (2.6%)	29 (3.1%)	1 (0.1%)	3 (0.3%)	31 (3.4%)	$17,941							81.3%	81.5%	0.29%
330522000517	10	Newfound Memorial Middle School	Public	6-8	155 N. Main St.	Bristol	03222	Grafton County	Newfound Area School District	No	No	No	No	(603) 744-8162	282	27	10.5	32.3%	266 (94.3%)	1 (0.4%)	7 (2.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	8 (2.8%)	$19,733							79.2%	65.4%	13.78%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on NH SAS Mathematics, NH SAS Reading, NH SAS Science test scores released by the New Hampshire Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on September 9, 2024, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the New Hampshire Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the New Hampshire Department of Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the New Hampshire Department of Education.