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About this school
Mount Pleasant School is
an urban public school
in Nashua, New Hampshire that is part of School Administrative Unit 42.
It serves 250 students
in grades K - 5 with a student/teacher ratio of 9.3:1.
Its teachers have had 96 projects funded on DonorsChoose.
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of students receive free or reduced price lunch
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48%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
American, or Asian
Data about school demographics comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. The numbers in this chart may not add up to 100% because of limitations in the available data.
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Mount Pleasant School
$60,391
raised using DonorsChoose
96
projects
funded
33
teachers
funded
285
donors
5
projects
for
basic supplies
17
projects for
technology
9
projects for
books
13
projects
for
art supplies
Mount Pleasant School has received support from
184 individuals from New Hampshire and
101 individuals out-of-state.