Summary:
ZIP code 03870 has one elementary school: Rye Elementary School in Rye, New Hampshire. The school serves approximately 211 students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 4 and is part of the Rye School District. Its small enrollment and reported student-teacher ratio of 9.6 to 1 suggest a relatively personal school environment, although the ratio does not represent exact class size.
Rye Elementary School is one of the strongest-performing elementary schools in New Hampshire. For 2025–2026, it ranked 7th out of 230 schools, placed in the 97th statewide percentile, and received five stars. Overall proficiency was 83% in mathematics and 84% in reading, compared with 75% and 78%, respectively, for the district and 44% and 55% statewide. Third-grade mathematics was especially strong at 91%, while third- and fourth-grade reading were both 84%. These results indicate that students are performing well above state averages in both core subjects.
The school’s performance has been consistently strong rather than limited to a single year: it ranked 4th in 2023–2024, 11th in 2024–2025, and 7th in 2025–2026, retaining a five-star rating each year. Reading proficiency improved from 77% to 84% over the last reported year, while mathematics dipped slightly from 85% to 83%. The main area parents may want to monitor is fourth-grade mathematics, where proficiency was 76%, 15 points below the third-grade result, though still well above the statewide rate of 52%. Overall, the available data describe a high-achieving, stable elementary school with particularly strong mathematics and consistently solid reading outcomes.
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