Title XV, Education

A district may determine upon what terms scholars from other districts may be admitted to its schools, and if a district neglects to make such determination the school board may do it.

The fiscal and scholastic year for all school districts shall end June 30 in each year.

As an affirmation of the freedom of religion in this country, a school district may authorize the recitation of the traditional Lord's prayer in public elementary schools. Pupil participation in the recitation of the prayer shall be voluntary. Pupils shall be reminded that this L…

A school district may include one-semester courses at the elementary and secondary levels in the cultural heritage and ethnic history of New Hampshire's people, and may raise and appropriate money for this purpose.

I. As a continuation of the policy of teaching our country's history to the elementary and secondary pupils of this state, this section shall be known as the New Hampshire School Patriot Act. II. A school district shall authorize a period of time during the school day for the rec…

A school district may include military drill and physical exercises in its course of instructions, and may raise and appropriate money for that purpose.

A school district may include instruction in the safe and proper use of firearms including instruction in game laws and good hunting practices, and may raise and appropriate money for said purposes.

Any school district may maintain an evening school as a part of its public school system, and every district in which reside or are employed 15 or more persons between the ages of 16 and 18 years who cannot read and speak the English language understandingly shall maintain an eve…

Every school district in which reside or are employed 20 or more persons above the age of 18 years who cannot read and speak the English language understandingly shall maintain schools for the instruction of such non-English-speaking persons for such time in each year, and under …

For the purposes of this chapter, an elementary school is as set forth in RSA 189:25.

All districts legally organized shall be corporations, with power to sue and be sued, to hold and dispose of real and personal property for the use of the schools therein, and to make necessary contracts in relation thereto.

Any school district may by vote or bylaw establish and maintain a high school in which the higher English branches of education, Latin, Greek and modern languages may be taught.

I. Two or more adjoining districts in the same or different towns may make contracts with each other for establishing and maintaining jointly a high school or other public school for the benefit of their pupils, and may raise and appropriate money to carry the contracts into effe…

The school districts of the state may enter into a contract with each other for the establishing and maintaining jointly a high school for the benefit of their pupils and may raise and appropriate money to carry said contracts into effect. The school boards of said districts, act…

The adoption of a long-term contract as provided for by RSA 194:21-a may be taken by the school district at a regular annual meeting or a special meeting called for the purpose provided that an article is inserted in the warrant for said meeting relative to said contract.

The provisions of RSA 194:21 relative to joint maintenance of schools, and the provisions of RSA 194:27, as amended, relative to limitations on the payment of tuition, shall not apply to the school districts of the state if any long-term contract herein provided for is adopted by…

Any school district may make a contract with an academy, high school or other literary institution located in this or, when distance or transportation facilities make it necessary, in another state, and raise and appropriate money to carry the contract into effect. If the contrac…

I. The term "high school" shall mean a public school or public academy comprising a span of grades beginning with the next grade following an approved elementary, middle or junior high school as defined by RSA 189:25 and ending with grade 12. Such a school shall: (a) Offer those …

I. In order to satisfy compulsory school attendance laws, a high school student less than 16 years old must attend a high school which has been approved by the state board of education as complying with the provisions of RSA 194:23, or its equivalent; and the state board of educa…

The state board of education shall have the power to approve for a reasonable period of time a high school that does not fully meet the requirements of RSA 194:23 if in its judgment the financial condition of the school district or other circumstances warrant delay in full compli…

In order to be entitled to accept tuition students, a public high school must be approved by the state board of education as complying with the provisions of RSA 194:23.

The provisions of this section shall apply to all public high schools maintained by the local school board as provided in RSA 189:1-c. I. In addition to the school board members authorized in RSA 671:4, a high school shall select, in accordance with the directives of paragraph II…

Commencing with the classes graduating high school in 2027 and for each graduating class thereafter, a school board or school administrative unit board may affix the New Hampshire state seal of civic excellence and engagement, pursuant to RSA 189:11-e, to a diploma awarded to a s…

Whenever it shall appear that the attendance of a pupil at the school with which the contract is made will work a manifest hardship, which may be avoided by permitting the child to attend another approved school, the pupil through his parents, guardian or some other responsible p…

The school board shall thereupon order a hearing within 10 days thereafter, and, if it shall appear to the board that the claim is well-founded, the board shall make the order prayed for, and the district in which the pupil resides shall be liable to the school to which the pupil…

The person applying for the pupil's transfer, or the governing board of the school with which the district has made the contract, may appeal from the decision of the school board to the state board within 10 days from the date of the filing of the order, or if no order is filed w…

Any district not maintaining a high school or school of corresponding grade shall pay for the tuition of any pupil who with parents or guardian resides in said district or who, as a resident of said district, is determined to be entitled to have his or her tuition paid by the dis…

A pupil who has attended a high school, or schools of corresponding grades, for such time as is usually required and who has not been graduated may be required to certify to the school board of the district liable for the pupil's tuition that he will make the effort required to p…

If any town in which a high school or school of corresponding grade is not maintained neglects or refuses to pay for tuition as provided in RSA 194:27, such town shall be liable therefor to the parent or guardian of the child furnished with such tuition, if the parent or guardian…

School districts may raise money, as required by law, or, in addition thereto: I. To procure land for lots for schoolhouses and school administrative unit facilities, and for the enlargement of existing lots; II. To build, purchase, rent, repair, or remove schoolhouses and outbui…

A local school district may if federal funds are not appropriated sufficient to cover the cost of educating school age pupils who live on federally owned or leased property, assess tuition up to the state average costs against parents or guardians of said pupils which cover the c…

School districts may vote, at any annual meeting, to raise such sums of money as the voters judge necessary for the purpose of reducing an accumulated general fund deficit.

I. A school district may establish a revolving fund for the purpose of providing moneys for school programs which are self-supporting, in whole or in part. The purposes for which such fund is established shall be specified by the district. II. (a) A school district may raise reve…

I. Every school district which has computer systems or networks shall adopt a policy which outlines the intended appropriate and acceptable use, as well as the inappropriate and illegal use, of the school district computer systems and networks including, but not limited to, the I…

A school may partner with a nonprofit or implement a program on its own to make leftover school food, that was prepared but never served, into frozen to-go meals or portions for distribution in compliance with state food safety regulations and Federal Food and Drug Administration…

No elementary school, as defined in RSA 189:25, or high school, as defined in RSA 194:23, shall be discontinued, or the location thereof be changed, except by a majority vote of voters residing in all municipalities that are served by the school or district. Upon written petition…

If a majority of voters residing in all municipalities that are served by a school or district vote in the affirmative for the discontinuance of such elementary or high school pursuant to RSA 194:3-f, the municipality in which the elementary or high school is located shall be per…

All academies, private schools and public schools shall be furnished with copies of the school register, and shall make an annual report of membership to the department of education in accordance with RSA 189:28.

All elementary and secondary educational institutions including academies, private schools and public schools shall, upon request of a private school or a school district as authorized by a parent, student, or former student, furnish a student record to any elementary or secondar…

The principal of each college, academy, seminary or other institution of learning, incorporated by the laws of this state, shall annually, and before November 1 of each year, forward to the New Hampshire Genealogical Society, for its library, one copy of each printed catalogue of…

Whenever any school district organized under a special act of the legislature shall vote to abolish such district and to unite with the town district, if said town district shall vote to receive said special district, and the special district has for the 5 years next preceding su…

It shall be the duty of said town district to raise and appropriate each year thereafter sufficient money, in addition to the school money which the town in which it is situated may raise, to properly maintain such high school, or schools, as may be established under RSA 194:33.

No high school shall be discontinued, or the location thereof be changed, except by the superior court, on petition of 20 or more legal voters of the town or district in which such high school is located, in addition to a majority of the school board for said town or district, af…

Any town district failing to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall be fined for such neglect.

I. Any special district organized under a special act of the legislature may, by a majority vote of the qualified voters present and voting at a legal meeting, dissolve its corporate existence and unite with the town district. II. Any special district or pre-existing special dist…