1 Dalkeith Road
Hollis, NH 03049

Good school but not great. Caters to the top 5% and bottom 20%. Mix of some great teachers and others that leave much to be desired.

always rude teacher force us to make everything seem good. like she asked for a review and i gave and honest one and she got so mad when i said the staff threatened me

As a parent, I cannot recommend this school.Our experience has been that student and parent concerns are too often dismissed rather than addressed. When concerns are raised, the response frequently feels defensive and adversarial rather than collaborative. Parent-teacher meetings that should be focused on helping students succeed can instead leave families feeling blamed, intimidated, and unheard.One of the most troubling aspects of our experience was learning that members of the school community had characterized my son to other students as "trouble." Whether intentional or not, this type of labeling can have a lasting impact on a student's reputation, confidence, and relationships with peers and staff. Students should be supported, mentored, and encouraged to grow—not defined by negative labels.These concerns extend beyond academics. In athletics, we observed behavior from a football coach that we believed was inappropriate and demeaning toward student-athletes during practices, games, and in the locker room. When concerns were raised, we felt that school leadership and the athletic department were more interested in defending the teachers/coaches than in objectively evaluating the concerns raised.Over time, this created the impression that teachers, coaches, and administrators are rarely held accountable, while students and parents are left feeling powerless. Vulnerable students who need support and advocacy may instead feel ignored or dismissed.A school should teach more than academics. It should model respect, integrity, accountability, and good character. Unfortunately, our family's experience was that these values were not consistently reflected in the school's culture.While there are a very small percentage of dedicated teachers and staff members at HBHS, the overall environment left our family feeling unsupported and discouraged. I would encourage parents to carefully evaluate whether this is the right environment for their child, particularly if they expect school leadership to take student and parent concerns seriously.Based on our experience, I would not recommend this school.

We transferred in to the district before the start of eighth grade and were not notified until the end of the school year that a more advanced math track was available. The school counselor simply ignore an email request about this, then after follow-up got snide. Based on our experience we couldn't recommend guidance as a good part of the school experience here, though there are many other good things about the school. Another poor area is teacher communication to parents and students. The teachers in our student's classes were spotty in their attention to grading and posting grades, with the result that sometimes assignment and homework grades would lag for months and show as Fs on period summary emails. Even heading into the final week of school we didn't have an accurate representation of our son's grades. Despite all that the school is a fun place for kids, with a climbing wall in the gym, well-conducted field trips, and an actually decent music program. Physical education is unfortunately mostly an afterthought, but that's true of most American public schools.