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Merrimack Valley High School, Penacook, NH

Merrimack Valley High School is a public high school in Penacook, part of Merrimack Valley School District. It enrolled 744 students in 2024-25, with 14.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
744
Teachers (FTE)
53.0
Students per teacher
14.0
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 2.5 higher than the district figure of 11.5. The New Hampshire average across schools is 11.3. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.0
District11.5
New Hampshire11.3
United States15.3

School details

Address
106 Village St., Penacook, NH 03303
County
Merrimack County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Fringe
NCES school ID
330476000284
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
140
Reduced-price lunch
39
Free or reduced-price lunch
17924.1% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

High schools elsewhere in Penacook

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.