NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools NH

Best-Resourced Schools in Salem, NH

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10 public K-12 schools in Salem 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
3,949
Students
37.1/100
Avg Resource Index
14.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Salem has more public-school enrollment than 43% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Salem sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Salem'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 2 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

Salem lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 106 to 1,116 students, a 11-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 57%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
33rd percentile
Teacher staffing
65th percentile

Salem High School accounts for 28.3% of all Salem public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Salem-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

Salem school enrollment varies 11× across entities

Salem school enrollment ranges from 106 students (lowest) to 1,116 students (highest), a spread of 1,010 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

Salem student-teacher ratio is 14.2:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Salem is typically wider than the Salem-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

2 of Salem's 10 listed schools are charters

20% 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. The Birches Academy of Academics - Art a Public Charter Sch 45
2. Mary a. Fisk Elementary School 45
3. Arts Academy of New Hampshire Chartered Public High School 43
4. Salem High School 42
5. Woodbury School 39
6. North Salem Elementary School 38
7. William E. Lancaster School 36
8. Dr. L. F. Soule School 36
9. William T. Barron Elementary School 34
10. Salem Preschool 13

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Salem

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 Mary a. Fisk Elementary School 47.3/100
  2. 2 Dr. L. F. Soule School 45.5/100
  3. 3 Woodbury School 38.6/100
  4. 4 Salem Preschool 38.6/100
  5. 5 Salem High School 37.8/100

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Which Salem school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

The Birches Academy of Academics - Art a Public Charter Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Salem schools in this federal-data comparison at 45/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Salem, NH? ▼

Salem has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,949 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.2:1.

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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.