Summary:
The Goffstown High School is the only high school in the Goffstown School District, serving grades 9–12 in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The school enrolls about 1,008 students and has a 12.6-to-1 student–teacher ratio. Because it is the district’s only high school, its results provide the clearest picture of high-school education in the Goffstown area.
The school’s strongest academic areas are reading and science. In 2025–2026, 73% of students were proficient in reading, compared with 62% districtwide and 55% statewide. Science proficiency was 59%, exceeding the district by 13 percentage points and the state by 21 points. Science also improved significantly from the prior year, rising from 50% to 59%. Reading remained well above comparison averages, although it declined modestly from 77%. Mathematics is the most important area for improvement: 38% of students were proficient, compared with 48% in the district and 44% statewide. The school’s 11th-grade SAT mathematics result also matched the district at 38%, while exceeding the state result of 30%.
Parents may also find the school’s completion and overall performance indicators encouraging. The 2024–2025 graduation rate was 87.6%, slightly above the New Hampshire average of 87.0%, while the dropout rate was only 0.4%, substantially below the state’s 2.3%. School rankings improved from the 77th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 82nd percentile in 2025–2026, with a four-star rating each year. Overall, Goffstown High School appears to offer strong reading and science performance, favorable student persistence outcomes, and improving overall standing, while mathematics deserves focused attention and reading results should be monitored.
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