At $29,080 per pupil, Cornish School District ranks #31 of 161 New Hampshire districts by per-pupil spending (New Hampshire districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Cornish School District operates 1 public schools serving 125 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Hampshire. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Sullivan County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,080 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 161 New Hampshire districts by per-pupil spending. See how New Hampshire compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 71.1% local, 24.3% state, and 4.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 137:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 26.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.4% White, 1.5% African American, 0.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Cornish Elementary School, enrolling 137 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 8.8% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (125 to 136 students), while the student-teacher ratio tightened by 0.7 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $4,607,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 43.7% went to instruction, 32.9% to support services, and 1% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Cornish Elementary School accounts for 100.0% of all Cornish School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Cornish School District a distant remainder — means Cornish School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Cornish School District student-counselor ratio is 137:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Cornish School District chronic absenteeism rate is 26.3% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Cornish School District is typically wider than the Cornish School District-aggregate figure suggests.
Cornish School District has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 125 students.
How much does Cornish School District spend per student?
Cornish School District spends $29,080 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Cornish School District?
Cornish School District students are 96.4% White, 1.5% African American, 0.7% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.