Summary:
Gathering Waters Charter School includes one elementary-level school, Gathering Waters Charter School (E), serving students from kindergarten through eighth grade in Keene, New Hampshire. The school has 219 students, a notably low 7.6-to-1 student-teacher ratio, and a 24.2% free- or reduced-price lunch rate. Because it is the only school in the Gathering Waters Charter School district, there are no school-to-school comparisons within the district. Parents should view its results in comparison with New Hampshire averages and consider the differences among grade levels.
The school’s strongest result is third-grade reading, where 59% of students were proficient, compared with 51% statewide. Reading is otherwise uneven: proficiency falls to 33% in fourth and fifth grades and 29% in sixth grade, before improving to 50% in seventh grade and 43% in eighth grade. Overall reading proficiency is 42%, below the 55% state average. Mathematics is the clearest concern, with only 13% proficient overall compared with 44% statewide. Results are low in every tested grade, including 0% in seventh grade, 12% in fifth grade, and 13% in eighth grade. Science performance is more consistent but still below average, at 29% overall versus 38% statewide.
The school’s current ranking is 207th of 230 New Hampshire schools, in the 10th percentile, down from the 26th percentile in 2022–2023. The low student-teacher ratio may allow for individualized attention, but the achievement results suggest that staffing advantages have not yet produced consistently strong outcomes. Parents may want to ask about mathematics curriculum alignment, intervention services, student progress monitoring, and support during the transition from third to fourth grade and into middle school. Since the school is relatively small, results in individual grades may be affected by small class sizes, so multi-year trends and student growth are important to review alongside annual proficiency percentages.
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