Regular local school district · Hillsborough County
Nashua School District, NH: schools, enrollment and spending
Nashua School District runs 21 public schools with 9,813 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 12.0 students per teacher is 0.7 higher than the New Hampshire figure of 11.3.
At a glance
- Schools
- 21
- Students
- 9,813
- Teachers (FTE)
- 817
- Students per teacher
- 12.0
- NH: 11.3 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 141 Ledge St., Nashua, NH 03061
- Phone
- (603)966-1000
- County
- Hillsborough County
- Locale
- City: Small
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3304980
- State district ID
- NH-371
- Total staff (FTE)
- 1,800
- School counselors (FTE)
- 43.0About 228 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 42.0
Students per teacher compared
This district12.0
New Hampshire11.3
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (10,239), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $185.2 million
- Federal revenue
- $19.1 million
- State revenue
- $63.9 million
- Local revenue
- $102.3 million
- Total spending
- $191.5 million
- Spending per pupil
- $18,703
- Salaries
- $94.0 million49.1% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $39.3 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 10.3%
- State: 34.5%
- Local: 55.2%
New Hampshire overall
- Federal: 6.9%
- State: 30.0%
- Local: 63.1%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$18,703
New Hampshire$21,936
United States$16,826
Schools in Nashua School District
By level: 3 high, 3 middle, 12 elementary, 3 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Amherst Street School | Elementary | K to 5 | 290 | 13.8 |
| Bicentennial Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 481 | 12.7 |
| Birch Hill Elementary School | Elementary | K to 5 | 332 | 12.8 |
| Brentwood Academy | High | 9 to 12 | 26 | 4.3 |
| Brian S. McCarthy Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 649 | 11.2 |
| Broad Street Elementary School | Elementary | K to 5 | 256 | 12.2 |
| Charlotte Ave Elementary School | Elementary | K to 5 | 362 | 11.7 |
| Dr. Norman W. Crisp School | Elementary | K to 5 | 361 | 10.0 |
| Fairgrounds Elementary School | Elementary | K to 5 | 445 | 13.1 |
| Fairgrounds Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 585 | 12.2 |
| Franklin Street School | Prekindergarten | PK | 245 | 7.9 |
| Ledge Street School | Elementary | K to 5 | 454 | 11.1 |
| Main Dunstable School | Elementary | K to 5 | 359 | 13.8 |
| Mt. Pleasant School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 250 | 10.0 |
| Nashua High School North | High | 9 to 12 | 1,543 | 13.0 |
| Nashua High School South | High | 9 to 12 | 1,686 | 12.8 |
| Nashua Title I Preschool | Prekindergarten | PK | 0 | |
| New Searles School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 256 | 10.7 |
| Pennichuck Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 768 | 11.6 |
| Purple Panthers Preschool | Prekindergarten | PK | 37 | 18.5 |
| Sunset Heights School | Elementary | K to 5 | 356 | 11.9 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Hillsborough County
- Manchester School District 11,949 students
- Bedford School District 3,971 students
- Merrimack School District 3,460 students
- Hudson School District 2,928 students
- Goffstown School District 2,777 students
- Milford School District 1,989 students
- Contoocook Valley School District 1,947 students
- Pelham School District 1,611 students
- Amherst School District 1,311 students
- Hollis-Brookline Cooperative School District 1,119 students
- Litchfield School District 1,117 students
- Hillsboro-Deering Cooperative School District 982 students
- Mascenic Regional School District 876 students
- Souhegan Cooperative School District 702 students
- Academy for Science and Design Charter School 672 students
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.