New Hampshire Public Schools:The Facts

Fewer students.
More spending.

The state’s own numbers on enrollment, spending, and property taxes. Every figure on this page links to its source, so you can easily check it yourself.

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After inflation: $11,192 to $20,323 per pupil (2023 dollars). NHED data

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Enrollment: NHED District Fall Enrollments and Town Level Enrollment, October 1 counts, fall 2011 to fall 2025. Town counts are students who live in the town, wherever they attend. Cost per pupil: NHED Cost Per Pupil by District, 2024–25 and 2000–2023 (2000 figures in 2023 dollars). NHED’s cost per pupil leaves out tuition, transportation, construction, and debt. SAU groupings come from NHED’s enrollment reports. Towns and the districts that serve them: NHED District/Town report. Property taxes: NHED Values reports for 2007–08 and 2025–26 (local school assessment, statewide education property tax, and school rates), and NH Dept. of Revenue Administration municipal tax rates for 2021 and 2025. Rates are per $1,000 of assessed value and drop when a town revalues, so compare dollars raised over time, not rates. Cooperative district rates are averages across member towns.

Now the statewide picture

2000 vs. 2023, after inflation

Cost per pupil from the NHED Cost Per Pupil by District, 2000–2023 ($11,192 in 2000, in 2023 dollars, vs. $20,323). Enrollment from NHED enrollment reports, 2000–01 vs. fall 2023.

48,139 fewer

students in New Hampshire public schools: 208,461 in 2000–01, down to 160,322 in fall 2025 (NHED; 2000–01 count via Scafidi 2025).

$22,700

average cost per pupil in 2024–25, up from $11,192 in 2000 in today’s dollars. Counting everything, including transportation, construction, and debt: $27,690 per pupil. (NHED)

$5,906 more

per pupil than the national average in FY2023: $21,731 in New Hampshire vs. $15,825 nationally, in preliminary U.S. Census figures (reported by Nashua Ink Link).

District by district, the same story

Districts where cost per pupil rose

148 of 148

Every district with comparable data spent more per pupil in 2023 than in 2000, after inflation.

Districts that lost students

9 in 10

133 of those 148 districts enrolled fewer students in fall 2025 than in fall 2011.

Tiny districts

28

districts had fewer than 100 students in fall 2025, and 59 had fewer than 250.

Cost per pupil increase, by how many students each district lost

Median change in cost per pupil after inflation, 2000 to 2023 (NHED Cost Per Pupil by District, 2000–2023), for 148 districts split into four equal groups by enrollment change, fall 2011 to fall 2025 (NHED District Fall Enrollments).

Biggest enrollment drops, fall 2011 to fall 2025

Districts with at least 200 students in 2011. Select one to see its numbers.

Highest cost per pupil, 2024–25

State average: $22,700. Select one to see its numbers.

Sources: NHED District Fall Enrollments; NHED Cost Per Pupil, 2024–25.

Staff per 100 students, fall 2022

NH

18.5

U.S.

13.7

New Hampshire has the 5th most staff per student of any state, 35% above the national average.

Source: U.S. Dept. of Education, NCES Digest Table 213.50.

Change in NH school staff, 2001–2019

Students

−14%

Teachers

+2%

Aides

+40%

Student support

+41%

District admins

+57%

Instr. coordinators

+61%

Teacher pay rose just 8% after inflation from 2001 to 2024, while district spending rose 45%. The money paid for more staff, not better teacher pay.

NHED data reported to the U.S. Dept. of Education, compiled by Scafidi: 2001–2019 report and 2020–2024 update (Josiah Bartlett Center).

How New Hampshire compares

Staff per 100 students, all 50 states, fall 2022

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Staff per 100 students, fall 2012 to fall 2022

New Hampshire kept adding staff per student as enrollment fell.

Staff per student, fall 2012 to fall 2022

+10%

in New Hampshire, while enrollment fell 11% (NCES; NHED enrollment reports).

Compared with the nation

35% more staff

per student than the U.S. average, 5th most of any state (fall 2022)

Source: U.S. Dept. of Education, NCES Digest Table 213.50. Staff per 100 students is 100 divided by the pupil/staff ratio.

New Hampshire ranks #2 in the nation for school administration cost: $2,029 per student, 68% above the U.S. average.

The state has more than 100 School Administrative Units (SAUs) today, up from about 85 in 2005. Each can carry its own superintendent, business office, and HR staff. A 1993 state study found that replacing SAUs could save $27 million a year, about $62 million in today’s dollars.

#1in the nation for SAU-level (“general”) administration: $794 per student, more than any other state (U.S. Census, 2023).

Source: NH Legislature SAU study committee final report (Nov. 1, 2025), citing 2023 U.S. Census data.

50 of 101

SAUs serve fewer than 1,000 students, and 28 serve fewer than 500. Each can carry its own superintendent and central office.

Students in each SAU’s districts, fall 2025, from NHED District Fall Enrollments.

It’s a spending problem,
not a funding problem.

No amount of state money will fix a spending problem. It only makes it worse.

School budgets are set locally, and schools are the biggest part of most property tax bills. When school budgets grow, your property tax follows.

Local school spending, after inflation

Spending per student by who pays, after inflation

Local

$5,223 (2001)

$12,279 · +135%

State

$5,791 (2001)

$5,604 · held steady

State aid per student held steady while local spending more than doubled as enrollment fell 14%. The trend continued: from 2020 to 2024, local school taxes rose 17% while districts served 8% fewer students.

NHED and U.S. Dept. of Education data, compiled by Scafidi (2023, 2025).

Schools’ share of all property taxes

62%

$3.15 billion of the $5.09 billion in property taxes New Hampshire towns raised for 2025 went to schools, through local and state education rates.

Local school property tax

$1.38B → $2.79B

Up 103% from 2007–08 to 2025–26, while consumer prices rose about 55%. The increase came from local budgets, set at local meetings.

Look up your town

Your bill →

See your town’s school tax, rate, and the share of your bill that goes to schools.

Sources: NH Dept. of Revenue Administration, 2025 municipal tax rates; NHED Values reports, 2007–08 and 2025–26; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index. Dollars are not adjusted for inflation.

Where your property tax dollar goes

All New Hampshire property taxes, 2025: $5.09 billion

Local school tax: 54% ($2.78B)State education tax: 7% ($0.38B)Town or city: 31% ($1.57B)County: 7% ($0.38B)

Schools take 62 cents of every property tax dollar. Your town government takes about 31.

What schools cost you

Pick your town and enter your assessed value to see how much of your 2025 property tax bill goes to schools.

Town

Assessed value

Uses each town’s 2025 tax rates per $1,000 of assessed value (NH DRA 2025 municipal tax rates). Your actual bill depends on your assessment and any exemptions or credits.

On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Nation’s Report Card, New Hampshire students lost ground three times faster than students nationally, even as spending climbed.

Combined change in grade 4 and 8 reading and math scores, 2003–2024, compiled by Scafidi (2025) from NAEP data.

U.S.

−7

New Hampshire

−21

Straight from the 2024 NAEP New Hampshire reports

Test	NH average score, then	NH average score, 2024	Students below Basic, then	Students below Basic, 2024
Grade 8 math	286 (2003)	280	21% (2003)	31%
Grade 8 reading	271 (2003)	264	19% (2003)	26%
Grade 4 math	243 (2003)	242	13% (2003)	19%
Grade 4 reading	226 (1998)	221	26% (1998)	33%

Nearly one in three New Hampshire eighth graders now scores below the most basic level in math, up from about one in five in 2003.

Source: NAEP 2024 state snapshot reports for New Hampshire, grades 4 and 8 mathematics and reading. The grade 4 reading report compares 2024 with 1998.

The claims you hear at school meetings, checked against state data, state law, and the record. Open any card for the numbers and sources, or copy a link to share one fact.

Spending

Where the money goes

MYTH“Our schools have been cut to the bone.”FACTAfter inflation, cost per pupil is up 82% since 2000.Dig deeperClose

In 2000, New Hampshire spent $11,192 per pupil in today’s dollars. By 2023 it was $20,323, and in 2024–25 it reached $22,700 per pupil in operating costs, or $27,690 counting everything. Total spending topped $4 billion in 2023–24.

Sources: NHED Cost Per Pupil by District, 2000–2023; NHED Cost Per Pupil, 2024–25; NHED.

MYTH“More money means better results.”FACTSpending climbed while scores fell: NH lost 21 points on NAEP since 2003, three times the national drop.Dig deeperClose

Nearly one in three New Hampshire eighth graders now scores below Basic in math, up from about one in five in 2003. Grade 8 reading, grade 4 math, and grade 4 reading all slipped too.

Sources: NAEP New Hampshire profile; combined score change compiled by Scafidi 2025.

MYTH“Enrollment is falling, so cost per student has to rise.”FACTSome costs are fixed. But districts added staff as students left.Dig deeperClose

From 2001 to 2019, enrollment fell 14%. Over the same years, instructional aides rose 40%, student support staff 41%, district administrators 57%, and instructional coordinators 61%. Fixed costs can explain some of the rise. They don’t explain hiring more people as students leave.

Sources: NHED and U.S. Dept. of Education data compiled by Scafidi 2023.

Staffing

Who the money pays for

MYTH“The new money went to teachers.”FACTNH has 35% more staff per student than the U.S., yet teacher pay rose just 8% after inflation since 2001.Dig deeperClose

New Hampshire has 18.5 staff for every 100 students, the 5th most of any state, against 13.7 nationally. Teacher pay rose 8% after inflation from 2001 to 2024, while district spending rose 45%. The money paid for more staff, not better teacher pay.

Sources: NCES Digest Table 213.50; Scafidi 2023; Scafidi 2025.

MYTH“More staff means smaller classes and better outcomes.”FACTWe already have the 5th most staff per student in the country, and scores are falling.Dig deeperClose

If staffing levels drove results, New Hampshire would be gaining ground. Instead, NAEP scores fell three times faster than the nation’s from 2003 to 2024.

Sources: NCES Digest Table 213.50; NAEP New Hampshire profile; Scafidi 2025.

MYTH“Consolidating SAUs means losing local control.”FACTThe state study would move academic decisions back to local school boards and make the top administrator elected.Dig deeperClose

The 2025 legislative study committee’s majority found superintendents today “do not directly answer to the voters.” New Hampshire already spends more on SAU-level administration than any other state: $794 per student. The committee’s plan puts business functions such as accounting, HR, purchasing, and transportation with an elected county school administrator, and returns curriculum, discipline, and teacher hiring to local school districts. Today voters can’t change an SAU budget. Under the county model, the administrator is elected and the county’s legislative delegation oversees the budget, so voters gain control, not lose it. A 1993 state study estimated that replacing SAUs could save $27 million a year.

Sources: SAU study committee final report (2025); U.S. Census, 2023.

Property taxes

Why your bill keeps rising

MYTH“The state cut aid and pushed costs onto local taxpayers.”FACTLocal school taxes doubled because local budgets grew, not because the state pulled back.Dig deeperClose

Local school property taxes rose from $1.38 billion in 2007–08 to $2.79 billion in 2025–26, up 103%, while prices rose about 55%. From 2001 to 2019, state aid per student held steady after inflation while local spending per student rose 135%. Local budgets, set at local meetings, drove the increase.

Sources: NHED Values reports, 2007–08 and 2025–26; Scafidi 2023.

MYTH“The state needs to pay more. It’s not fair.”FACTState money is still your money. Shifting who pays doesn’t change how much is spent.Dig deeperClose

Every dollar of state school aid comes from New Hampshire taxpayers, through state taxes or the statewide education property tax. Moving the bill from your town to the state changes the envelope, not the amount. Budgets are still set locally, and they kept growing while enrollment fell: cost per pupil is up 82% after inflation since 2000, while the state has 48,139 fewer students. No amount of state money will fix a spending problem. It only makes it worse.

Sources: NHED Cost Per Pupil by District, 2000–2023; NHED enrollment reports.

MYTH“More state aid will lower my property taxes.”FACTThe state raised aid 8% in 2023–24. Local school taxes kept climbing, up 28% from 2021 to 2025.Dig deeperClose

In 2023–24 the state raised base adequacy aid from $3,787 to $4,100 per student, and aid for low-income students from $1,893 to $2,300, up 21%. Local school property taxes still rose from $2.17 billion in 2021 to $2.78 billion in 2025. When more money arrives, budgets grow to absorb it.

Sources: NHED aid rate history, SFY 2017–2026; NH DRA municipal tax rates, 2021 and 2025.

MYTH“Voting no on the school budget will close our schools.”FACTIn SB 2 districts, a failed budget means the default budget takes effect. Schools stay open.Dig deeperClose

By law, the default budget is last year’s operating budget, adjusted for debt service, contracts, and other obligations already incurred or required by law, and reduced by one-time expenses. The school board can also call a special meeting to vote on a revised budget.

Sources: RSA 40:13.

The 3‑3 plan

The 3‑3 plan: two new taxes, no spending limits.

A proposed 3% state income tax and a $3 statewide property tax, sold as property tax relief. Here’s what its own numbers show.

3%

new state income tax

$3

per $1,000, new statewide tax on every property

$24,000

cost per pupil, by the plan’s own count, and it still wants to spend more

+133%

spending hike per student, from $4,300 to $10,000, with no limits attached

Quotes and figures come from the 3‑3 plan’s own site, so you can check that we’ve represented it fairly.

MYTH“The 3‑3 plan is tax relief.”FACTBy its own numbers, it collects about $2 billion in new taxes to cut local school taxes by about $1.64 billion, then adds new spending on top.Dig deeperClose

The plan says its goal is “to replace local funding to the extent possible, not to increase overall funding.” Its own figures say otherwise. It “raises about $2 billion,” and local school property taxes would fall from “$2.64 billion” to “$1 billion.” It also more than doubles base aid per student, raises special education aid nearly twelvefold, and adds “a $1000 transportation stipend for each regular education student.” That’s a spending increase, paid for with two new taxes.

Sources: the 3‑3 plan’s own site.

MYTH“The 3‑3 plan will lower my property taxes for good.”FACTNothing in it limits school spending. As budgets grow, the savings shrink, and the new taxes stay.Dig deeperClose

The plan’s savings examples assume school budgets stay where they were in 2024. The plan contains no cap or limit on school budgets. History says budgets keep growing: local school property taxes rose 103% from 2007–08 to 2025–26, and when the state raised base aid 8% in 2023–24, local school taxes still rose 28% from 2021 to 2025.

Sources: the 3‑3 plan’s own site; NHED Values reports; NHED aid rate history; NH DRA municipal tax rates.

MYTH“The deductions and credits will protect me.”FACTThey’re promises, not law. Any future legislature can shrink them by majority vote.Dig deeperClose

The plan promises “a $35,000 deduction for each taxpayer and a $15,000 deduction for each dependent child,” “a $250,000 homestead exemption,” and “an equivalent credit” for renters. None of it exists. The plan “will be introduced as a bill in the 2027-28 session,” and nothing in it can bind future lawmakers. Those deductions leave a lot of income untaxed, and income taxes change once they exist. In 2022 Massachusetts voters added a 4% surtax on income over $1 million on top of the state’s flat 5% income tax. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, which provided the 3‑3 plan’s numbers, called that surtax “a significant victory for tax fairness.”

Sources: the 3‑3 plan’s own site; EY Tax News; ITEP on the Massachusetts surtax.

MYTH“Our school costs are in line with New England. The problem is how we pay for them.”FACTTheir own site puts cost per pupil at about $24,000. New Hampshire is 6th highest in the country.Dig deeperClose

New Hampshire ranks 6th of 50 states in spending per pupil, 2nd in administration cost, and 5th in staff per student. After inflation, cost per pupil is up 82% since 2000 while enrollment fell 21%. Changing who pays doesn’t change how much is spent.

Sources: the 3‑3 plan’s own site; SAU study committee report (Census 2023); NCES Digest Table 213.50; NHED Cost Per Pupil, 2000–2023.

MYTH“The 3‑3 plan will make housing more affordable.”FACTIt adds a $3 statewide property tax on every rental and business property, with no homestead exemption.Dig deeperClose

The plan blames school funding for “our housing affordability crisis,” then taxes every property in the state at $3 per $1,000. Only primary homes get the $250,000 homestead exemption. Apartment buildings, rental homes, and businesses pay the full tax, and those costs show up in rent and prices. Renters are promised “an equivalent credit,” but like the plan’s other credits, it’s a promise, not law.

Sources: the 3‑3 plan’s own site.

EFAs and school choice

EFAs: about 1 cent of every education dollar.

What opponents quote

$51.6 million

What they leave out

More than $4 billion

spent on New Hampshire public schools every year. EFAs are a penny next to that dollar.

12,500

students allowed in 2026–27, up 25% (NHPR)

$5,204

average EFA in 2024–25, vs. $22,700 per public school student (NHED)

2021

first school year of EFAs, long after enrollment began falling

943

students on the 2026–27 waitlist

The math: EFA grants totaled nearly $27.7 million in 2024–25 (NHED, Nov. 2024), less than 0.7% of the more than $4 billion New Hampshire spends on public schools in a year (NHED, 2023–24). The 2025–26 cost of $51.6 million (InDepthNH, Nov. 2025, from NHED data) is no more than 1.3%. Either way, it’s about a penny on the dollar.

MYTH“EFAs are eating the education budget.”FACTEFAs cost about 1 cent of every dollar New Hampshire spends on schools.Dig deeperClose

EFA grants are paid with the state’s per-student education aid, not your town’s local school tax, and unused money goes back to the state’s Education Trust Fund. Your local school tax rate is set by your district’s budget.

Sources: RSA 194-F:2; NHED, Nov. 2024; InDepthNH, Nov. 2025, from NHED data; NHED.

MYTH“EFAs are draining public schools.”FACT84% of the enrollment drop since 2000–01 happened before the first EFA was paid.Dig deeperClose

Public school enrollment fell from 208,461 in 2000–01 to 167,909 in fall 2020, a loss of 40,552 students, before EFAs existed. The total drop through fall 2025 is 48,139.

Sources: NHED enrollment reports; Scafidi 2025 (2000–01 count).

MYTH“EFAs cost taxpayers more.”FACTThe average EFA was $5,204 in 2024–25. A public school seat cost $22,700.Dig deeperClose

By law, an EFA equals the state adequacy grant, plus any differentiated aid, that would have followed the child to a public school. The district keeps its local property tax money. The Department of Education estimated the 2024–25 EFA students would have cost taxpayers more than $99 million in public schools, against $27.7 million in grants.

Sources: RSA 194-F:2; NHED, Nov. 2024; NHED Cost Per Pupil, 2024–25.

MYTH“Most EFA kids were never in public school.”FACTEvery child has the same claim to a quality education.Dig deeperClose

About 80% of EFA students weren’t in a public school when they joined. Their families have always paid school property taxes like everyone else. Before EFAs, the state’s education aid didn’t follow these children at all. Now they receive a fraction of what a public school seat costs.

Sources: InDepthNH, Nov. 2025, from NHED data; NHED Cost Per Pupil, 2024–25.

MYTH“The EFA program is over budget.”FACTThat’s demand. Families want in, and 943 are on the waitlist.Dig deeperClose

EFAs cost $51.6 million in 2025–26 against $39.3 million budgeted, because 10,510 students enrolled. The $12.3 million gap is less than one-third of 1 cent per education dollar. For 2026–27 the cap rose to 12,500 students, and the waitlist still reached 943.

Sources: InDepthNH, Nov. 2025, from NHED data; NHPR, Aug. 2026.

MYTH“Charter schools take money from public schools.”FACTCharter schools are public schools. The state funded them at $9,180 per student in 2024–25.Dig deeperClose

In 2024–25, state-authorized charter schools received the same base adequacy aid as district schools, $4,182 per student, plus a charter grant of $4,998, for $9,180 per student, with extra aid for low-income students and English learners. That’s well under the $22,700 district cost per pupil. A charter student’s state aid goes to the charter, and the district keeps its local tax dollars. About 7,350 students attended charter schools that year, by the state’s estimate.

Sources: NHED, Charter School Funding Orientation (Feb. 2025); NHED Cost Per Pupil, 2024–25.

It’s a spending problem, not a funding problem. Six changes that would bring spending back in line with enrollment and results, without a new tax.

1

Consolidate SAUs and share back-office services

The problem

New Hampshire spends $2,029 per student on administration, second-highest of the 50 states and 68% above the national average. On SAU-level (“general”) administration alone, New Hampshire is #1 in the nation, at $794 per student. The state now has more than 100 SAUs, up from about 85 in 2005, and many carry their own superintendent, business office, and HR staff.

The fix

Adopt the county model recommended by the 2025 legislative study committee: about 12 SAUs, one per county plus Manchester and Nashua. Business functions such as accounting, HR, purchasing, and transportation move to the county. Curriculum, discipline, and teacher hiring return to local school boards. Today superintendents are chosen by a “board of boards,” and voters can’t change an SAU budget. Under the county model, the administrator is elected, and the county’s legislative delegation oversees the budget.

Sources: SAU study committee final report (2025); U.S. Census, 2023.

What you can doAsk your state representative and senator to support consolidating SAUs under the county model.

2

Budget to enrollment

The problem

New Hampshire spends $21,731 per pupil (preliminary 2023 Census figure), sixth-highest in the country and more than 44 other states. Enrollment has fallen 23% since 2001, yet districts kept adding staff.

The fix

Build each budget on next year’s projected enrollment. When students leave, staffing and spending should come down with them, not keep climbing.

Sources: U.S. Census 2023 school finance data; Nashua Ink Link; SAU study committee final report (2025); NHED enrollment reports; Scafidi 2023.

What you can doAsk your school board how staffing has changed as enrollment fell, and what next year’s budget assumes.

3

Put dollars in classrooms

The problem

After inflation, district spending rose 45% from 2001 to 2024, but teacher pay rose just 8%. The number of teachers barely moved while aides, support staff, and administrators grew.

The fix

Make teacher pay the first priority in every budget, and hold the line on non-teaching positions.

Sources: Scafidi 2023; Scafidi 2025.

What you can doAsk how much of this year’s increase goes to teacher pay, and how much to new non-teaching positions.

4

Publish the numbers

The problem

Key numbers such as administration cost per pupil and staff per student are scattered across state reports, if they’re published at all. Most voters never see them when they vote on a budget.

The fix

Every district should publish a one-page scorecard with its budget each year, in the same format, so voters can compare.

Sources: NHED Cost Per Pupil, 2024–25; NHED enrollment reports.

What you can doAsk your school board to publish a scorecard with the budget every year. Start with this site’s lookup for your town.

5

Tie budgets to results

The problem

Spending per pupil climbed for two decades, but results slipped. Nearly one in three New Hampshire eighth graders now scores below Basic in math, up from about one in five in 2003.

The fix

Every budget increase should come with measurable reading and math goals, reported back to voters the following year.

Sources: NAEP 2024 New Hampshire reports.

What you can doAsk your school board what results in reading and math this budget will buy, and how you’ll know.

6

Keep choices open

The problem

One-size-fits-all costs more. A district school seat cost $22,700 in 2024–25. A charter school ran on $9,180 in state aid, and the average EFA was $5,204.

The fix

Protect Education Freedom Accounts and public charter schools. They give families options and give districts a reason to control costs.

Sources: NHED Cost Per Pupil, 2024–25; NHED charter funding; NHED EFA data.

What you can doTell your legislators to protect EFAs and public charter schools.

Sources

State and federal data

Policy research

News reporting

The 3‑3 plan

Inflation adjustments follow each source: NHED states 2000 figures in 2023 dollars; Scafidi uses the PCE price index.

Fewer students.
More spending.

Your town, by the numbers

Students down. Cost per pupil up.

District by district, the same story

Biggest enrollment drops, fall 2011 to fall 2025

Highest cost per pupil, 2024–25

Where did the money go? More staff.

How New Hampshire compares

New Hampshire ranks #2 in the nation for school administration cost: $2,029 per student, 68% above the U.S. average.

It’s a spending problem,
not a funding problem.

Why your property tax bill keeps climbing

Where your property tax dollar goes

What schools cost you

More money. Lower scores.

What you’ve heard vs. what’s true

Where the money goes

Who the money pays for

Why your bill keeps rising

The 3‑3 plan: two new taxes, no spending limits.

EFAs: about 1 cent of every education dollar.

The fix: stewardship, not new taxes

Consolidate SAUs and share back-office services

Budget to enrollment

Put dollars in classrooms

Publish the numbers

Tie budgets to results

Keep choices open

Sources

State and federal data

Policy research

News reporting

The 3‑3 plan

Fewer students.More spending.

Your town, by the numbers

Students down. Cost per pupil up.

District by district, the same story

Biggest enrollment drops, fall 2011 to fall 2025

Highest cost per pupil, 2024–25

Where did the money go? More staff.

How New Hampshire compares

New Hampshire ranks #2 in the nation for school administration cost: $2,029 per student, 68% above the U.S. average.

It’s a spending problem,not a funding problem.

Why your property tax bill keeps climbing

Where your property tax dollar goes

What schools cost you

More money. Lower scores.

What you’ve heard vs. what’s true

Where the money goes

Who the money pays for

Why your bill keeps rising

The 3‑3 plan: two new taxes, no spending limits.

EFAs: about 1 cent of every education dollar.

The fix: stewardship, not new taxes

Consolidate SAUs and share back-office services

Budget to enrollment

Put dollars in classrooms

Publish the numbers

Tie budgets to results

Keep choices open

Sources

State and federal data

Policy research

News reporting

The 3‑3 plan

Fewer students.
More spending.

It’s a spending problem,
not a funding problem.