Summary:
Somersworth School District has two elementary schools serving 626 students in preschool through fifth grade in the Somersworth area of New Hampshire: Idlehurst Elementary School serves prekindergarten through grade 2, while Maple Wood Elementary School serves grades 3–5. This grade-level campus structure means families typically move from Idlehurst to Maple Wood after second grade. Idlehurst is the larger school, with 341 students compared with 285 at Maple Wood, and the two schools have similar student-teacher ratios of 13.1 and 12.3, respectively.
Idlehurst Elementary School serves younger children and does not have comparable state assessment results in the available data, so its academic performance cannot be directly compared with Maple Wood’s. Its reported free/reduced-price lunch rate is 34.9%, compared with 43.51% at Maple Wood Elementary School. This measure provides demographic context but is not a measure of school quality. Maple Wood’s smaller student-teacher ratio may be useful for families to note, although such ratios do not necessarily represent actual class sizes or the amount of individual support students receive.
Maple Wood Elementary School shows its strongest relative performance in reading, with 34% of students proficient in 2025–2026, compared with 21% in mathematics and 24% in science. Reading proficiency improved from grade 3 to grade 5, while mathematics declined from 28% to 16% across those grades, making math the clearest area of concern. Maple Wood’s results were generally close to district averages but substantially below New Hampshire averages, and its statewide ranking fell to the 5th percentile in the latest year. Science improved by 8 percentage points year over year, while math and reading declined modestly. Families should view these results alongside the district’s overall low statewide ranking and ask about math interventions, reading supports, attendance, staffing, and services for individual student needs.
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