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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

Gilbert H. Hood Middle School

Derry, New Hampshire

NCES ID
330261000086
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Gilbert H. Hood Middle School is a public middle school in Derry, New Hampshire, run by Derry Cooperative School District. It enrols 540 students — the 32639th largest of 505 public schools in New Hampshire.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

540students

32639th nationally, tied with 109

Teachers

44.0FTE

20120th nationally, tied with 1,039

Students per teacher

12.3students

22742nd nationally, tied with 836

Free or reduced-price lunch

25.6%percent

73019th nationally, tied with 80

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Derry Cooperative School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Gilbert H. Hood Middle School540 students
  2. 2Ernest P. Barka Elementary School522 students
  3. 3West Running Brook Middle School499 students
  4. 4Derry Village School405 students
  5. 5East Derry Memorial Elementary School356 students
  6. 6South Range Elementary School348 students
  7. 7Grinnell School333 students
  8. 8Derry Early Education Program121 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: New Hampshire median across 505 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+81.2%
  • Teachers+76.0%
  • Students per teacher+9.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+6.9%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.