Middle Schools in Contoocook Valley School District

The middle schools in Contoocook Valley School District serve students in grades 5–8 across the Peterborough and Antrim areas, with two schools and 556 students combined: South Meadow School and Great Brook School. Both schools have a 3-star district rating, and their current statewide rankings are fairly close, suggesting broadly similar overall performance.

South Meadow School is the larger school, enrolling 332 students, and currently has the stronger overall ranking. It is the stronger mathematics school, with 43% of students proficient compared with 38% at Great Brook School. South Meadow is especially strong in grades 6–8 mathematics, including performance above the state average in seventh and eighth grade. However, its reading proficiency is slightly lower than Great Brook’s, and science is a significant weakness at 29%, well below the state average. Its scores declined modestly in mathematics and reading and more sharply in science compared with the prior year.

Great Brook School serves 224 students and stands out for reading, where 59% of students are proficient—five points higher than South Meadow and four points above the state average. Great Brook leads South Meadow in reading at every grade level, with particularly strong sixth- and seventh-grade results. It also had the strongest recent improvement, gaining 10 percentage points in reading and improving its statewide ranking from 86th to 68th. Its main challenge is mathematics, while science remains a shared concern for both schools: proficiency is 31% at Great Brook and 29% at South Meadow, compared with 38% statewide. Great Brook also reports the lower student-teacher ratio, 8.2 to 1 versus 9.4 to 1.