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Somersworth, New Hampshire - 1 schools
At $41,881 per pupil, Rollinsford School District ranks #15 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
Rollinsford School District operates 1 public schools serving 129 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 Strafford County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $41,881 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 17 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 74.2% local, 23.5% state, and 2.3% 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 154:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 18.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.6% White, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Rollinsford Grade School, enrolling 154 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Rollinsford Grade School accounts for 100.0% of all Rollinsford School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Rollinsford School District a distant remainder — means Rollinsford 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.
Rollinsford School District student-counselor ratio is 154:1 — 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.
Rollinsford School District chronic absenteeism rate is 18.2% — 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 Rollinsford School District is typically wider than the Rollinsford School District-aggregate figure suggests.