Program Stats
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<1%
Students Eligible -
1%
Funded Eligibility -
17
Participating Students (2018-19) -
$14,000
Average Account Value (2018-19) -
65%
Public School Funding
Program Summary
Students must live in New Hampshire and reside in an identified “tuition town.” A tuition town lacks a district school that offers the grade levels students need. When students are tuitioned, the sending town pays the receiving school district or private school an amount equal to the receiving school’s expenses of operation, as estimated by the state Board of Education for the preceding year. That figure is calculated separately for elementary, junior high, and high schools. Operational costs do not include the transportation of “tuitioning” students. When a family chooses a private school approved as a “school tuition program,” the sending town contracts with that private school for an amount that covers the private school’s costs to educate that student.
Funding Mechanism: A sending town pays the receiving school district or private school an amount equal to the receiving school’s expenses of operation.
Universal Eligibility: ❌
Universal Usage: ❌
Universal Funding: ✅
Truly Universal: ❌
(Last updated December 16, 2025)
Use of Funds
Qualifying expenses include private school tuition.
(Last updated December 16, 2025)
Program Guidelines
View program requirements for parents, schools, and scholarship granting organizations by clicking on each hyperlink.
(Last updated December 16, 2025)
Governing Statutes
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 193:3, VI–VII
(Last updated July 9, 2024)
Legal History
On September 2, 2020, the Institute for Justice filed litigation seeking the New Hampshire courts to recognize the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue (see Legal History in Montana Tax Credits for Contributions to Student Scholarship Organizations) and thus allow religious schools to participate in New Hampshire’s town tuitioning voucher program. The case was voluntarily dismissed by plaintiffs on July 28, 2021, after Governor Chris Sununu signed H.B. 282 allowing students to choose religious schools under town tuitioning. Griffin v. New Hampshire Dept. of Education, Merrimack Superior Court at Concord, NH, Docket No. 217-2020-CV-00480.
(Last updated July 9, 2024)