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Exeter, New Hampshire - 1 schools
At $22,978 per pupil, East Kingston School District ranks #101 of 161 New Hampshire districts by per-pupil spending (New Hampshire districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$22,978
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District-Level NCES Analysis
East Kingston School District operates 1 public schools serving 132 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Hampshire. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 Rockingham County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,978 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower 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 70.9% local, 19.9% state, and 9.2% 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 108:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 19.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.3% White, 1.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
East Kingston Elementary School accounts for 81.8% of all East Kingston School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of East Kingston School District a distant remainder — means East Kingston School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
East Kingston School District student-counselor ratio is 108:1 — 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.
East Kingston School District chronic absenteeism rate is 19.4% — 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 East Kingston School District is typically wider than the East Kingston School District-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to East Kingston School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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