Best Middle Schools in New Hampshire

The top 50 middle schools (grades 6-8) in New Hampshire, ranked by enrollment from NCES data with EDFacts proficiency rates where available. Average proficiency across this list is 68%.

#	School	City	Enrollment	Proficiency
1	Dover Middle School	Dover, NH	1,018	66%
2	Cooperative Middle School	Stratham, NH	951	68%
3	Londonderry Middle School	Londonderry, NH	890	73%
4	Mountain View Middle School	Goffstown, NH	829	75%
5	Rundlett Middle School	Concord, NH	826	64%
6	Woodbury School	Salem, NH	777	69%
7	Hudson Memorial School	Hudson, NH	692	67%
8	Auburn Village School	Auburn, NH	654	65%
9	McKelvie Intermediate School	Bedford, NH	649	68%
10	Amherst Middle School	Amherst, NH	639	72%
11	Keene Middle School	Keene, NH	627	65%
12	Deerfield Community School	Deerfield, NH	528	68%
13	Bow Memorial School	Bow, NH	526	69%
14	New Boston Central School	New Boston, NH	512	69%
15	Nottingham Elementary School	Nottingham, NH	505	62%
16	Chester Academy	Chester, NH	502	66%
17	West Running Brook Middle School	Derry, NH	499	69%
18	James Mastricola Upper Elementary School	Merrimack, NH	491	67%
19	Lebanon Middle School	Lebanon, NH	471	64%
20	Milford Middle School	Milford, NH	464	65%
21	David R. Cawley Middle School	Hooksett, NH	429	72%
22	Windham Center School	Windham, NH	418	70%
23	Kearsarge Regional Middle School	North Sutton, NH	410	69%
24	Epsom Central School	Epsom, NH	392	66%
25	Northwood Elementary School	Northwood, NH	388	68%
26	Barrington Middle School	Barrington, NH	382	66%
27	Hollis-Brookline Middle School	Hollis, NH	382	70%
28	Hampstead Middle School	Hampstead, NH	377	63%
29	Greenland Central School	Greenland, NH	371	63%
30	Frances C. Richmond School	Hanover, NH	360	67%
31	Pelham Memorial School	Pelham, NH	355	61%
32	Windham Academy Public Charter School	Windham, NH	351	71%
33	Academy for Science and Design Charter (M)	Nashua, NH	341	78%
34	South Meadow School	Peterborough, NH	339	61%
35	Strong Foundations Charter School	Pembroke, NH	314	66%
36	Gilford Middle School	Gilford, NH	305	70%
37	North Hampton School	North Hampton, NH	303	77%
38	Seacoast Charter School	Dover, NH	299	70%
39	MicroSociety Academy Charter School Foundation	Nashua, NH	297	73%
40	Henry Wilson Memorial School	Farmington, NH	287	62%
41	Newfound Memorial Middle School	Bristol, NH	287	62%
42	Campton Elementary School	Campton, NH	280	62%
43	Chesterfield Central School	Chesterfield, NH	263	68%
44	Captain Samuel Douglass Academy	Brookline, NH	256	72%
45	The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch	Salem, NH	225	77%
46	Newmarket Jr.-Sr. High (Elem)	Newmarket, NH	223	64%
47	Maple Street Elementary School	Contoocook, NH	216	74%
48	Mont Vernon Village School	Mont Vernon, NH	211	64%
49	Plainfield Elementary School	Meriden, NH	206	70%
50	Rye Junior High School	Rye, NH	199	63%

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best middle school in New Hampshire?

The largest middle school in New Hampshire is Dover Middle School in Dover with 1,018 students and a 66% proficiency rate. Rankings are based on NCES Common Core of Data enrollment and EDFacts proficiency results.

How many middle schools are in New Hampshire?

This page shows the top 50 middle schools (grades 6-8) in New Hampshire by enrollment. Browse the full state directory to see all schools.

What does the proficiency rate measure?

Proficiency rate is the percentage of students meeting grade-level standards on combined math and reading assessments, as reported by EDFacts. Data is district-level and applied to each school in the district.

Where does this data come from?

Enrollment and school characteristics come from the NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency rates come from EDFacts assessment results. Both are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.

The this entity category groups every U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.

For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.

Sources: NCES Common Core of Data, EDFacts

Last updated: June 2026

Schools are ranked by enrollment within the state. Proficiency rates come from EDFacts assessment results, district-level figures applied to each school in the district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.