January 14, 2022

Exploring race and diversity beyond the classroom

January 14, 2022

Exeter Region Cooperative District is slightly less diverse and more wealthy than the state as a whole.

According to the New Hampshire Department of Education, in 2020-21, about 91% of students were non-Hispanic white, while nearly 4% of students were Asian, 2.5% were Hispanic or Latino, about 1.4% were multi-racial, about .8% were Black and about .5% were Indigenous. About 4.2% of students at Exeter High were eligible to receive free and reduced lunch.

Help us tell the story

As we continue our examination of education and equity in New Hampshire, the Granite State News Collaborative and its partners would love your help. We want the community to drive our work.

We’re forming a private Facebook group called Teachers Off the Record, a space for educators and journalists to discuss what’s happening in New Hampshire’s schools.

We’re also hosting a variety of listening sessions with educational professionals and others with a stake in the Granite State’s educational system.

For students, we've developed an informal survey to gather ideas about what's working and what isn't in New Hampshire classrooms.

As part of the series, we will be releasing studies and data that we’ve gathered about education in New Hampshire. We’ve created a Data Library to make this information easier to share and understand. Each piece of information comes with details about where it comes from and what we did with it.

We hope that these efforts will inform our reporting and help us understand what families, students and schools want from education in the Granite State — and what they need to make the system work for everyone.

To become involved in guiding our coverage of education inequity in New Hampshire, contact Granite State News Collaborative engagement reporter Nour Habib at nour.habib@collaborativenh.org.