Summary:
Newton, New Hampshire, has two public schools serving grades K–8: Memorial School serves grades 3–5, while Seacoast Classical Academy Chartered Public School serves kindergarten through 8th grade; no separate middle or high school is listed in this data.
Memorial School is the clear academic leader in Newton. It ranks 49th out of 230 New Hampshire schools, compared with 143rd for Seacoast Classical Academy Chartered Public School. Memorial’s proficiency rates are higher in every reported subject: 70% in math, 61% in reading, and 47% in science, versus 38%, 54%, and 12%, respectively, at Seacoast Classical. Memorial’s strongest results are in 4th- and 5th-grade math, where 80% and 75% of students are proficient. It also has a much lower student-teacher ratio, 9.0 compared with 17.9. Memorial serves 239 students, or about 57% of the enrollment represented in the data, and is part of the Sanborn Regional School District.
Seacoast Classical Academy Chartered Public School has a more mixed profile, serving 179 students. Its overall math and science results are below state averages, but performance improves in later grades. Fifth-grade reading reaches 64%, fifth-grade math reaches 58%, and sixth-grade reading reaches 55%, with several of these results above state benchmarks. Science is the clearest area for improvement, particularly the 17% fifth-grade proficiency rate. Parents should also note that the schools have different grade spans, so all-grade comparisons are not perfectly equivalent. Memorial has shown especially strong momentum, rising from the 50th to the 79th percentile in SchoolDigger rankings over three years, while comparable long-term trend data is not available for Seacoast Classical.
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