Summary:
The Pelham School District in Pelham, New Hampshire, serves about 1,607 students across three schools covering prekindergarten through grade 12. The district includes Pelham Elementary School for grades PK–5, Pelham Memorial School for grades 6–8, and Pelham High School for grades 9–12. Reported student-teacher ratios are relatively low, ranging from about 9.5:1 to 10.3:1, which may support individualized attention.
Reading is the district’s clearest strength: proficiency is about 60% at the elementary and middle schools and 61% at the high school, above the statewide result of 55% at all three schools. Pelham Elementary School also performs well in mathematics, with 51% proficiency compared with 44% statewide, though science is a concern at 31% and fell sharply from the prior year. Pelham Memorial School is the district’s strongest current academic performer, ranking in the 63rd percentile statewide. It made large gains in mathematics, reading, and science, and now meets or exceeds state results in all three subjects.
Pelham High School has an uneven profile. Its 95.2% graduation rate and 0.6% dropout rate are much better than state averages, and reading proficiency is strong. However, mathematics proficiency is only 19%, compared with 44% for both the district and state, while science is 23%. High school mathematics and science should therefore be the district’s most urgent academic priorities. Overall, families will find a district with strong reading, a notably improving middle school, solid graduation outcomes, and important opportunities to strengthen science in the elementary grades and mathematics throughout high school.
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