If you’re wondering if Hooksett will ever construct its own high school, don’t ask any of the members of the Hooksett High School Committee.

Because they don’t know.

The committee has made no hard decisions yet about whether the town needs its own secondary school but will continue to review enrollment projections as it anticipates the district’s future needs.

Members of the committee met Feb. 26 at Cawley Middle School and discussed results from a recent long-range planning report as well as data collected from two other high school exploratory committees in the 1990s.

In 1991, a Hooksett committee reviewed several different high school scenarios, one of which would have constructed a cooperative high school with students in Auburn and Candia.

In 1996, a measure to build that school failed at town meeting. John Pieroni, Budget Committee chairman and a member of the current Hooksett High School Committee, said he remembers at the time the vote was taken in 1996, most people were satisfied with sending Hooksett’s high school-aged students to public schools in Manchester.

Gary Dempsey, chairman of the committee, said the group is still several months away from drawing its own conclusions. “Right now we’re collecting information,” said Dempsey, a Hooksett resident and a vice principal at Bedford High School.

“Every year is so different. Every year projections are so hard to estimate. There’s always something that gets thrown in there that changes it.”

Charles “Phil” Littlefield, superintendent of the Hooksett School District, said before the group makes any firm decisions about a future high school, it needs to determine what type of high school is even viable in the area.

“The numbers really tell it all. We’ve really got to look at those projection numbers,” Littlefield said. “I wouldn’t want to spend a lot of time, effort and energy researching a (cooperative high school) if there aren’t any other districts in a 50-mile radius that are interested in a co-op. And there might not be.”

The committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. on March 2 at Cawley Middle School.