Pinkerton Academy

5 Pinkerton St, Derry, NH 03038 | (603) 437-5200

Grades: 9-12
Student Enrollment: 3,315

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4.5 out of 5 | 2 Reviews

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School Description

School Summary and Highlights

Enrolls 3,315 high school students from grades 9-12
Ranks 11th out of 80 high schools in NH.

Additional Contact Information

Mailing Address: 5 Pinkerton St., Derry, NH 03038

School Operational Details

Title I Eligible
Shared Time School

Faculty Details and Student Enrollment

Students and Faculty

Total Students Enrolled: 3,315
Total Full Time "Equivalent" Teachers: 242.0
Average Student-To-Teacher Ratio: 13.7

Students Gender Breakdown

Males: 1,699 (51.3%)
Females: 1,616 (48.7%)

Free Lunch Student Eligibility Breakdown

Eligible for Reduced Lunch: 119 (3.6%)
Eligible for Free Lunch: 258 (7.8%)
Eligible for Either Reduced or Free Lunch: 377 (11.4%)

Student Enrollment Distribution by Race / Ethnicity

Pinkerton Academy Student Race Distribution

	Number	Percent
American Indian	19	0.6%
Black	35	1.1%
Asian	41	1.2%
Hispanic	75	2.3%
White	3,116	94.0%

Number of Students Per Grade

	Number	Percent
9th Grade	984	29.7%
10th Grade	834	25.2%
11th Grade	704	21.2%
12th Grade	793	23.9%

Source: NH Department of Education, Source: NCES 2009-2010

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Overall Rating: 4.5

4.5 out of 5 | 2 Reviews

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Reviewed by Former Student on January 04, 2010
Rating: (5 / 5) Flag as inappropriate
Hi: I am Thomas (Tim) Lemieux. Graduated in 1963....Here is a Pinkerton Academy true story.

PRE-Pop Warner football
When I started high school I joined the football team. At first I was one of the trainers, but was asked to try out for the team. One of the coaches had seen me run onto the field and give water to the team and then approached me and said, “Tim, wow you run fast. I want you to try out for the team because you run so fast!” I answered, “Ok, what do I do?” The coach gave me instructions and told me to dress for the next practice. I was very excited and couldn’t wait to practice. The next practice I dressed. But I put on too much gear. I didn’t really know how to dress or what I really needed. This was my first experience with football. I put on double hip pads and looked like I was bulging out of my pants. When I went out to the field the coach laughed at me and told me to take off one of the pads. I did and then was announced as a new player. “Ok, Tim, we are running sprints, let’s see what you can do”. The coach said. I ran the sprints and came in first every time. I was called over to the head coach, Mr. Root, and he said, “Looks like you have some speed young man; I can use you on the kicking team. You will be the “Go Man”. “Thank you sir,” I said. I went back to the team where they were running up a steep hill as fast as they could. I asked one of the other players what a “Go Man” was. He laughed and told me that my job would be to tackle the one who caught the ball after we kicked it. I could do that I thought, but I had no knowledge of football whatsoever. I asked another player what the rules were. He explained about the downs and some penalties. There was a lot to know. I kept asking questions to anyone who would answer. After about three practices I got the drift of it. And then there was the play book. “What,” I thought, “I have to learn all these plays?” Yes, I had to study the whole play book and especially what my assignments were. As a “Go Man” I didn’t have many assignments. My job was simple, tackle the player with the ball. I didn’t memorize the play book.
I did really well at the games. I was one of the few who were sophomores on the team. Most of the team was juniors and seniors. I felt privileged. A few games into the season I was asked to play on the offence as well as the specialty team I was already on. “What position will I be playing,” I asked one of the coaches. “Left guard”, he answered. “Look in the play book and memorize your assignments.” “Ok, I will”, I answered. I looked at the play book that night and found out I needed to memorize assignments for at least twenty to thirty plays. The coach was specific. He said, “You must know what the other players are doing so you can do your job. If you don’t know what the other players are doing, then you may mess up.” Ok, back to the play book. I had a really hard time with all this. I couldn’t seem to get it right. At practice I was messing up all the time and got yelled at a lot. I thought about another way to learn the plays. I got my younger brother, Paul, to help me. He is three years younger.
We went into the back yard and he played center and I played left guard. It was kind of hard because I really had no one to block. I went next door and asked a couple of Paul’s friends to help. They came over and I went from play to play placing the kids where my opponent would be. It was working out well. By the end of the week I had learned most of the plays and my assignments. The following week I did it again. This time a few more of Paul’s’ friends showed up and wanted to help. This was play to these younger kids. They loved it! By the end of that week I had a whole football team. All the kids would look forward to me coming home from school so they could run plays. I was learning very fast. So were they.
The following week a friend of mine came over and was watching me learn my plays. His name was Johnnie Fourthsite. “Tim, you have a full team here.” “Yes”, I said, “I’m almost done learning all my plays”. Johnnie had a plan. “Tim, want to have this little kids team play another little kids team?” “Yes,” I answered. So Johnnie went home and put a team together from his neighborhood”. (It was my old neighborhood). I knew most of the kids there too.
The next week Johnnie and I brought our teams to Mc Greggor Park on Sunday and played a game. My team won. It was fun to see all these little kids play football. We didn’t have any real equipment except what the kids brought. I continued my practice almost every night with the little kids. They got really good. The next week we played again and we won again. About the fourth week one of the dad’s of the players took me aside and asked if I had any equipment and pads for the kids. I did not. He said he would go to Hood’s Junior High School and see if he could get some equipment. I attended Hood’s and didn’t remember any football program. It seems that Hood Junior High had a football program in years past and still had all the equipment. We were able to get the equipment free of charge and now my team looked really good. We even had shirts, helmets and some cleats and pads. Being fully dressed gave us confidence!
A couple of more weeks into the season my little sister Kathy wanted to be a cheer leader. She was about seven years old. I told her that was fine. The next game she brought three more little girls that were her age and formed a cheer leading squad. It was really cute to see four seven year old girls do football cheers. Kathy would practice her cheers in the back yard while my little kids ran plays with me.
We had about three games left and the park was getting full of parents and people just watching our games. It got so crowded that we didn’t have any room left. I made a decision. My regular Pinkerton team played on Saturdays on the High School field when we had home games. I thought that we could take our games to that field on Sundays. It was a good plan. The next game was at the Pinkerton High School field and we had plenty of room. We played across the field because it was shorter and the players were small. It worked well for two weeks and then something happened.
“Tim Lemieux report to the office”, the home room speaker announced. What was this? I was never called to the office before. I had no idea what this was about. The home room teacher looked at me and asked what I did. “I didn’t do anything,” I said. Off to the office I went. When I got there the President of The School Board was there and asked me to go into Principal Hackler’s office. I was frightened. Mr. Hackler informed me that I may be suspended from school because I broke tradition. I had no idea what he was talking about. The Director further explained that no one had ever played football on the school field since its inception. That was in the late eighteen hundreds. The Director was very upset. I explained that we needed more room to play because the field we were on became too small for all the spectators, players and cheer leaders. Again it was stresses to me that no one is allowed to play on that field on Sundays. Mr. Hackler told the Director that I was a good student, in the school band and on the football team. He also said to the director that he had heard of “The Little Kids” playing football under my direction. Mr. Hackler offered a solution to the director. “Can we let Tim play on the field on Saturday after any home games or when there were no home games?” The director went quiet. He finally spoke. “I don’t mind Tim playing on Saturdays, but if there is one more game there on Sunday I will suspend him!” So it was agreed. I had permission to continue. The rest of the season the kids played and had a good time.
I continued with these kids for three years. We had a great following and every year I learned all the plays the Pinkerton coaches gave me. My "Little Kids" team was unbeaten for three years! I also got another job on the Pinkerton team. I played on three teams. I played left offensive guard, defensive “Go Man” and defensive line backer. With three positions I had a lot to learn. I became a letterman in my first year and enjoyed all the perks that came with it.
The following year I entered the army. I was away almost a year. When I returned to my home town , Derry, New Hampshire, around November of 1964 I saw some kids playing football on a different field. I noticed that most of the players were originally on my “Kids Team” that I had coached the years past. I was very curious about what was happening, so I sought out an adult and asked him what was happening? He informed me that this was Pop-Warner Football and most of the kids had been coached by a student at Pinkerton Academy in previous years. I got excited because I knew I was that student. We had a long conversation and as the kids recognized me they came to greet me. It was a good feeling to know someone else picked up the ball…..so to speak.
Thomas R. (Tim) Lemieux: Class of 1963

Reviewed by Staff Member on January 18, 2009
Rating: (4 / 5) Flag as inappropriate
I Like it i guess.

Test Scores and Performance Information

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The overall school rating shows that Pinkerton Academy performed on average better than many other schools across the state on NECAP state exams in the following subjects:

Math
Reading
Science
Writing

NECAP - Test Proficiency by Grade and Subject

Grade 11 - % of students at or above proficiency

	School	District	State
Math Test
2011	39.0%	39.0%	36.0%
2010	44.0%	44.0%	33.0%

Reading Test
2011	85.0%	85.0%	74.0%
2010	89.0%	89.0%	73.0%

Science Test
2011	32.0%	32.0%	24.0%
2010	33.0%	33.0%	24.0%

Writing Test
2011	49.0%	49.0%	45.0%
2010	57.0%	57.0%	50.0%

Source: NH Department of Education 2010-2011

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