Lafayette Regional School District

Lafayette Regional School District has one elementary school, Lafayette Regional School, serving kindergarten through sixth grade in Franconia, New Hampshire. The school enrolls 98 students and has a favorable 11.9-to-1 student-teacher ratio, suggesting a small, close-knit setting with opportunities for individualized attention. With a 5-star SchoolDigger rating and a district ranking of 15th out of 166 in New Hampshire, it is one of the state’s stronger-performing small school communities.

Academic results are well above state averages across all reported subjects. In 2025–2026, 80% of students were proficient in mathematics, compared with 44% statewide; 78% were proficient in reading, compared with 55% statewide; and 63% were proficient in science, compared with 38% statewide. Mathematics is the clearest strength, while reading also remains very strong. Science had the lowest proficiency rate but showed the biggest improvement, rising from 50% the previous year to 63%. Reading declined from 84% to 78%, but it still remained substantially above the state result. Available grade-level results showed particularly steady reading performance, with 73% proficiency in fourth grade and 75% in fifth grade.

The school’s statewide ranking has moved from an exceptional 5th place in 2023–2024 to 19th in 2025–2026, but it has maintained a 5-star rating and remains roughly in the top 8% of ranked schools. Parents should keep the school’s small enrollment in mind when interpreting annual percentages: the performance of only a few students can noticeably change results from year to year. The reported free/reduced-price lunch rate was 13.27% in 2024–2025, though that measure does not capture every family’s circumstances. Because the district has only one school, there are no competing schools within the district; the school’s results are also the district’s results.