Goffstown School District Vision, Mission, & Guiding Principles

Vision

The Goffstown School District is an educational community where students, teachers, professional and support staff, parents, school board members, and the entire community value and support academic achievement and are proud of their schools.

Mission

The Mission of the Goffstown School District is to provide the opportunity for each student to obtain a substantive, challenging, and appropriate education consistent with the student’s abilities, offered within a safe environment, and serves as a foundation for lifelong learning. 

Guiding Principles  

1. High quality and equitable public education is a foundation of our democracy.
2. Public education accepts and educates students possessing the full range of ability and interest.
3. Public education continues to do a respectable job under increasing societal expectations and demands. We strive to balance the demands with our educational goals.
4. Each student in the Goffstown School District has the right to an academic environment, which allows him or her to grow both intellectually and personally.
5. The responsibility of public education is to educate students to be good global citizens, to prepare them to live rich and rewarding lives, to be life-long learners, and to be valuable and flexible employees in a challenging and ever-changing world.
6. All students have the right to the opportunity to achieve a high-quality education and to be challenged at their own level. For this to occur all students should have access to a fair portion of the appropriated educational resources.
7. Schools must be a safe place in which the full range of learning and intellectual exploration can take place. Safe schools respect and encourage the open exchange and examination of different ideas, beliefs and opinions.
8. Our schools are a reflection of our community, and we can only achieve high standards if the community as a whole expects, supports and upholds those standards.
9. All members of the Goffstown academic community must be held to the highest standards. The academic community, both individually and collectively – must create and maintain a caring, supportive, and rigorous learning environment if the promise of a high-quality education is to be realized.
10. Goffstown schools can be most effective when there is active cooperation and collaboration between the schools and the larger community. Our schools should provide opportunities for involving parents and other members of the community in their schools.
11. The Goffstown community has the responsibility of providing its young people with a genuine opportunity to achieve a high-quality education. Opportunity, however, cannot guarantee results. It is the responsibility of the students and their parents to take full advantage of the opportunities provided to them.
12. Our schools and administration should regularly review and update educational policies to ensure they are in alignment with the mission and vision.

Approved unanimously by the Goffstown School Board on April 18, 2022