NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools NH

Best-Resourced Schools in Keene, NH

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10 public K-12 schools in Keene from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
3,373
Students
37.2/100
Avg Resource Index
12.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Keene has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Keene High School enrolls 38.2% of Keene's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Keene's 10 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Keene lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 67 to 1,288 students, a 19-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 66%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
34th percentile
Teacher staffing
82nd percentile

Keene High School accounts for 38.2% of all Keene public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Keene-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Keene school enrollment varies 19× across entities

Keene school enrollment ranges from 67 students (lowest) to 1,288 students (highest), a spread of 1,221 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Keene student-teacher ratio is 12.7:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

3 of Keene's 10 listed schools are charters

30% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Gathering Waters Charter School (H) 68
2. Keene Middle School 47
3. Symonds Elementary School 42
4. Gathering Waters Charter School (E) 40
5. Wheelock Elementary School 38
6. Keene High School 37
7. Fuller Elementary School 36
8. Franklin Elementary School 35
9. Making Community Connections Charter School - Monadnock 17
10. Jonathan Daniels School 12

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Keene

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Franklin Elementary School 35.2/100
  2. 2 Jonathan Daniels School 32.2/100
  3. 3 Making Community Connections Charter School - Monadnock 26.8/100
  4. 4 Symonds Elementary School 26.2/100
  5. 5 Fuller Elementary School 25.2/100

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Which Keene school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gathering Waters Charter School (H) has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Keene schools in this federal-data comparison at 68/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Keene, NH? ▼

Keene has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,373 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.