Public school / High
Portsmouth High School
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- NCES ID
- 330582000379
- District
- Portsmouth School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Portsmouth High School is a public high school in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, run by Portsmouth School District. It enrols 1,032 students — the 8101st largest of 505 public schools in New Hampshire.
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
1,032
Teachers
88.0
Students per teacher
11.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
10.9%
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.
Within Portsmouth 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.
- 1Portsmouth High School1,032 students
- 2Portsmouth Middle School499 students
- 3Little Harbour School346 students
- 4Mary C. Dondero Elementary School323 students
- 5New Franklin School259 students
- 6Peep School - Pre School Program23 students
- Enrollment+246.3%
- Teachers+252.0%
- Students per teacher+4.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−54.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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