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Lempster, New Hampshire - 1 schools
At $27,496 per pupil, Lempster School District ranks #66 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
Lempster School District operates 1 public schools serving 115 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 $27,496 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 62.4% local, 29.3% state, and 8.3% 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 220:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 21.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 92.4% White, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lempster Community School, enrolling 132 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Lempster Community School accounts for 100.0% of all Lempster School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Lempster School District a distant remainder — means Lempster School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Lempster School District student-counselor ratio is 220:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Lempster School District chronic absenteeism rate is 21.2% — 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 Lempster School District is typically wider than the Lempster School District-aggregate figure suggests.