School districts in New Hampshire
New Hampshire splits the two grade bands between separate districts over a large part of the state: 10% of its homes sit under an elementary district that stops before high school, with a separate secondary district taking over from there. That is why 62 of its 247 ZIP Code areas return a different set of districts for grade school than for high school. In 03785 (Mountain Lakes), the most divided of them, Haverhill Cooperative leads both answers, and the disagreement sits under it rather than at the top of the list. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Profile and Lafayette Regional, in 3 of them.
How many school districts are in New Hampshire?
179: the Census boundary file draws 179 school districts in New Hampshire that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 81 unified, 90 elementary and 8 secondary. A ZIP Code here can sit in more than one of them, which is why a school district lookup by ZIP Code for New Hampshire lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.
Two districts at one address
New Hampshire keeps 8 separate secondary districts — districts that pick students up partway through and run to the end of high school, over several elementary districts at once. Where one of those sits, an address has two district names and neither is wrong.
- ZIP Code areas with a district247
- Served by more than one district89 (36%)
- Grade school and high school differ62 (25%)
- No high school district named93
- Unified districts81
- Elementary districts90
- Secondary districts8
- Homes in no district at all15
District pages for New Hampshire, largest first
Manchester is the largest of them by far: at 51,438 homes it holds at least 4 times as many as Pemi-Baker Regional, second on this list with 10,556. It reaches 5 ZIP Code areas, and the areas it covers alone are counted on its own page rather than assumed from its size.
The most divided ZIP Code area in New Hampshire
ZIP Code area 03785 holds 1,249 homes and 6 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Haverhill Cooperative holds 84% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Haverhill Cooperative and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.
33 of the 1,249 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.
Each percentage here is a share of the 1,249 homes counted in ZIP Code 03785, not the chance that any one address is in that district. Enrollment follows the street: two houses on opposite sides of the same road can be in different districts, and only the district office can say which.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 1,249 homes counted in ZIP Code 03785, so one cell is 36 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds, and the unlit cells are the homes held by the other districts in the same list.
- Haverhill Cooperative School District1,052 of 1,249 homes84%
- Benton School District144 of 1,249 homes12%
- Lafayette Regional School District20 of 1,249 homes1.6%
- Landaff School District17 of 1,249 homes1.4%
- Bath School District16 of 1,249 homes1.3%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 197 of the 1,249 here.
Where the high school answer in New Hampshire is missing from the file
Across the 247 ZIP Code areas in New Hampshire with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 19,774 of the 639,068 homes they hold. The arithmetic understates it here: in 93 of those areas some homes have no high school district named at all, so the name that is right for the early grades is not wrong later — there is nothing there to be right about.
ZIP Code 03833 · Exeter, New Hampshire names 4 districts. Exeter School District is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 2,309 of the 9,768 homes there; for grade school the rest is 2,300 homes with Brentwood and Kensington; 9 homes in districts too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 03303 · Concord, New Hampshire the largest district for grade school is Merrimack Valley, and naming it alone misses 2,204 of the 6,971 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 2,204 homes with Concord.
ZIP Code 03275 · Suncook, New Hampshire is the case New Hampshire is known for: 2,031 of its 5,014 homes have no high school district named in the federal file, and Pembroke leads what is named for grade school. An answer of one name misses 2,031 homes there and the arrangement behind them.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 247 ZIP Code areas in New Hampshire that the federal file names a district for, 89 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 6 districts in one postal area: Mountain Lakes, Dorchester and Colebrook. Each row opens the full answer for that ZIP Code, with every district named for grade school and for high school and the share of the homes each one holds.
- ZIP Code 03785 · Mountain Lakes, New Hampshire6 districts · 1,249 homes · 33 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 03266 · Dorchester, New Hampshire5 districts · 1,318 homes · 169 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 03576 · Colebrook, New Hampshire4 districts · 2,319 homes · 600 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 03579 · Errol, New Hampshire4 districts · 920 homes · 469 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 03773 · Newport, New Hampshire4 districts · 3,783 homes · 759 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 03833 · Exeter, New Hampshire4 districts · 9,768 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 03057 · Mont Vernon, New Hampshire3 districts · 991 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 03223 · Campton, New Hampshire3 districts · 2,232 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 03264 · Plymouth, New Hampshire3 districts · 2,505 homes · 196 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 03431 · Keene, New Hampshire3 districts · 11,227 homes
- ZIP Code 03455 · Marlborough, New Hampshire3 districts · 1,010 homes · 993 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 03574 · Bethlehem, New Hampshire3 districts · 1,518 homes · two bands, two answers
What to do next
Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.
A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: 89 of the 247 ZIP Code areas in New Hampshire with a district named for them are served by more than one school district, and the line between two of them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.
District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.
If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.
Where these numbers come from
The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.