Summary:
ZIP code 03261, which includes Northwood, New Hampshire, has one high school serving grades 9–12: Coe-Brown Northwood Academy. The school enrolls 654 students and is part of the Coe-Brown Northwood Academy School District. With a reported student-teacher ratio of 11.4 to 1, the school offers a relatively favorable staffing environment. Since it is the only high school in the ZIP code, parents cannot compare it with another local high school, so the most useful comparisons are with New Hampshire averages and the school’s results over time.
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy is consistently one of New Hampshire’s strongest-performing schools. It ranked 12th out of 89 schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 87th percentile statewide, after ranking 8th and 11th in the prior two years. The school’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 98.8%, compared with 87.0% statewide, while its dropout rate was 0.5%, well below the state rate of 2.3%. These results suggest that students generally remain enrolled and complete high school successfully. The school also appears to provide particularly strong outcomes in reading and science: 2025–2026 proficiency was 79% in reading and 68% in science, compared with 55% and 38% statewide.
Mathematics is the main area parents may want to examine more closely. On the 2025–2026 NH SAS, 41% of students were proficient in math, three points below the state average and down two points from the previous year. However, the school’s 11th-grade SAT math result was stronger than the state result, 41% versus 30%, so performance may vary by grade level or assessment. Reading remained essentially stable, and science improved from 65% to 68% over the same period. Overall, the available data portrays Coe-Brown Northwood Academy as a high-performing, steady school with exceptional graduation, reading, science, and student-retention outcomes, along with a clear opportunity to strengthen all-grade mathematics performance.
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