BY JENN McDOWELL Hooksett Memorial School and Allenstown Elementary School have joined the list of schools in need of improvement following state testing results. Several local schools were either added to or maintained their positions on the New Hampshire Department of Education’s “school in need of improvement” list ...

BY JENN McDOWELLCassie Hobbs of Auburn said she might have gone with other friends from Auburn Village to Derry for high school had she known the sports and art classes she loves at West High School would be struck from the school’s budget for her senior year. “I wouldn’t be in this district if it weren’t for these ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKI Have you ever wondered how much your child’s teacher is paid? How about what happened at the last school board or selectmen’s meeting? Or whether your neighbor was arrested in that commotion last week? You have every right to get that information, but it may not be easy to do so. Neighborhood News investigated ...

BY JENN MCDOWELL Hooksett students have scored well enough to get their elementary schools off the state’s list of schools in need of improvement. However, graduates of middle schools in Hooksett, Candia and Auburn may step in to high schools in which the state is a heavy presence come next year. The Hooksett School District, with ...

BY SAPNA PATHAK When Bedford High School opens its doors later this year, traditions will be tested and rivalries rewritten. Around 900 students will move from Manchester West to BHS, dropping West’s student body by almost 40 percent. But perhaps the biggest hit will come to Queen City athletics programs. With each school drawing from ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNAs the three branches of state government wrangle over how to best provide aid to public schools, local school administrators say they can do little but watch and wait. “I could hypothesize a lot, but I think the reality here is that it’s a story in the making,” said Charles “Phil” Littlefield, ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNA Hooksett school committee plan to ask voters to withdraw from SAU 15 was rejected by the state Board of Education, which said the Hooksett committee didn’t fully consider the impact the withdrawal would have on the smaller school districts of Auburn and Candia, according to the state board’s chairman. The Hooksett ...