Best New Hampshire SAUs To Teach In, Average Teacher Salaries

CONCORD, NH — Several school districts in Patch communities in the state of New Hampshire are not ranked as the best districts for teachers despite one offering the fourth-highest average salary in the state.

A new ranking by Niche, the education platform that uses several data points as part of its methodology to study K-12 schools and colleges around the United States, showed that 19 of the Top 25 best school districts for teachers had average salaries of $70,000 or more annually.

The Concord School District had the fourth-highest average salary in the state — more than $80,000 annually, but the district did not make the Top 25 list.

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Here are the best 25 school districts to teach for in New Hampshire and their average teacher's salaries:

1. Hanover School District, $81,466
2. Sunapee School District, $78,391
3. Profile School District, Littleton, $65,954
4. Exeter Region Cooperative School District, $93,929
5. Bedford School District, $73,372
6. Lebanon School District, $76,801
7. Hollis-Brookline Cooperative School District, $72,032
8. Londonderry School District, $72,142
9. Portsmouth School District, $76,536
10. Rye School District, $81,690
11. Amherst School District, $75,067
12. Bow School District, $68,557
13. Hampton School District, $73,948
14. Hollis School District, $78,560
15. Exeter School District, $76,614
16. Gilford School District, $67,542
17. Kearsarge Regional School District, $71,030
18. Moultonborough School District, $70,274
19. Salem School District, $72,883
20. Goffstown School District, $61,235
21. Oyster River Cooperative School District, $75,398
22. Gorham Randolph Shelburne Cooperative School District, $55,182
23. Hampstead School District, $77,448
24. Berlin School District, $63,722
25. Hopkinton School District, $75,831

The Concord School District was ranked 27th, while teachers, on average, earn $80,086 annually. Merrimack educators, on average, earn $74,689. The district was ranked 36th.

Nashua was unranked and teachers there earn $62,922, on average. Milford School District teachers earn $69,675 while Merrimack Valley School District teachers earn, on average, $60,813. Both districts were also unranked. Manchester teachers earn $65,201, on average, while Windham was unranked, with teachers earning $61,109, on average.

The best district for teachers in the country is Glenbard High School District 225 in Illinois, Niche reported. That district pays its teachers an average of $103,465 per year.

None of New Hampshire’s school districts were ranked nationally.

Read the full list here.

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