Summary:
The Souhegan Cooperative School District has one public high school, Souhegan Coop High School, serving grades 9–12 in Amherst, New Hampshire. With 696 students and a student-teacher ratio of 10.3 to 1, the school provides a relatively small high school setting. Because it is the district’s only high school, school and district results are the same, and there are no other local high schools for direct comparison.
Souhegan Coop High School performs strongly across most measures. It is listed among New Hampshire’s top schools, ranking 10th out of 166 schools and at the 94th percentile, with a five-star rating. Its reported ranking history also improved from 19th to 6th in the comparison group, although the number of schools included differed by year. The graduation rate is 94.1%, well above the state average of 87%, while the dropout rate is just 0.5%, compared with 2.3% statewide. These results point to strong student completion and persistence.
Academic performance is especially strong in reading and science. On the latest NH SAS assessments, 81% of students were proficient in reading and 73% in science, compared with 55% and 38% statewide. Science also improved by 15 percentage points from the prior year. Mathematics is the main area for continued improvement: 46% of students were proficient, only slightly above the 44% state average, though this was up from 41%. Eleventh-grade SAT results show the same pattern, with 81% proficiency in reading and 46% in mathematics, both above state results. Overall, families can expect a high-performing school with strong graduation outcomes, notable literacy and science strengths, and a clear opportunity to further raise mathematics achievement.
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