Summary:
Laconia School District serves about 1,808 students in five schools covering prekindergarten through grade 12 in Laconia, New Hampshire, with three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. Overall performance is below the statewide midpoint, but results vary considerably from school to school. Elm Street School is the district’s clear standout, ranking in the 52nd statewide percentile and earning three stars. It has the district’s strongest results in math, reading, and science, including 54% math proficiency and 52% reading proficiency. Its third-grade math result of 81% is particularly notable.
Laconia Middle School ranks second within the district and has shown modest improvement over the past three years. Reading is its stronger subject, while math becomes a major concern in later grades: proficiency falls from 45% in sixth grade to 18% in eighth grade. Laconia High School also has stronger reading than math, but its 85.8% graduation rate is relatively close to the state rate, and its dropout rate is slightly better than the state figure. These completion results are more encouraging than the school’s standardized test performance.
Woodland Heights Elementary School and Pleasant Street School are the main areas of concern. Woodland Heights ranks in the 10th statewide percentile and has particularly low fifth-grade results, while Pleasant Street ranks in the 14th percentile and experienced sharp year-over-year declines, especially in science and reading. Science is the weakest subject districtwide, and math is especially weak in grades 7–12. For families comparing schools, the largest difference is among the elementary schools: Elm Street substantially outperforms the other two, suggesting an opportunity for the district to identify and share effective instructional practices while providing targeted support where performance has declined.
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