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The NHIAA  is the governing body for competitions among all public and some private high schools in the state of New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

. There are currently 57 schools (with two combining as one team) that have participating football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 programs throughout the state.

Division memberships

For most sponsored sports, the state is divided into 4 categories by school size: Large, Intermediate, Medium, and Small (L, I, M, S). For football however, there are 56 teams currently arranged into 6 divisions: I-VI.
Below is a list of the schools in each division for the 2011 season with notes of any changes. Go here
Past NHIAA Football Divisional Alignments
The NHIAA is the governing body for competitions among all public and some private high schools in the state of New Hampshire. For most sponsored sports, the state is divided into 4 categories by school size: Large, Intermediate, Medium, and Small...

 for past divisional alignments.

Division I

  • Concord
    Concord High School (New Hampshire)
    Concord High School is a high school in Concord, New Hampshire in the United States.- History :Concord's first public high school was established in 1846. The original building was the building on the corner of State and School Streets. A new school house was built in 1862, which stood until April...

  • Exeter
    Exeter High School (New Hampshire)
    Exeter High School is a public high school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.It serves students in grades 9 through 12 who reside in the communities of Exeter, Stratham, Kensington, Newfields, Brentwood, and East Kingston, New Hampshire...

  • Londonderry
    Londonderry High School
    Londonderry High School is a public secondary school serving grades 9 through 12 in the town of Londonderry, New Hampshire. The school, located on Mammoth Road , is on a parcel of land in the center of town. The main building is . and the separate gymnasium takes up an additional...


  • Manchester Central
    Manchester Central High School
    Manchester High School Central is the oldest public high school in the state of New Hampshire. Located in the heart of Manchester, New Hampshire, over 2,400 students attend from communities such as Auburn, Candia, Hooksett, and Manchester. The name was changed from Manchester High School in 1922...

  • Manchester Memorial
    Manchester Memorial High School
    Manchester Memorial High School is a four-year comprehensive school in Manchester, New Hampshire with an enrollment of approximately 2,100. The school's Latin motto is "scientia est potentia."...

  • Nashua North
    Nashua High School North
    Nashua High School North is a public high school located in Nashua, New Hampshire. The school's current location was erected in 2002 with its first class graduating in June 2005, one year after the city's high schools officially split into two locations and establishments...


  • Nashua South
    Nashua high school south
    Nashua High School South is a public high school located in Nashua, New Hampshire. The school's current location was erected in 1975 with its first class graduating in June 1976. The school was remodeled between 2002 and 2004 when a second school, Nashua High School North, was built...

  • Pinkerton
    Pinkerton Academy
    Pinkerton Academy is a secondary school in Derry, New Hampshire. It is the largest independent academy in the United States, serving roughly 3,600 students as the high school for the communities of Derry, Hampstead, Chester and sometimes Auburn...

  • Salem


Division II

  • Alvirne
    Alvirne High School
    Alvirne High School is located in the town of Hudson, New Hampshire with an enrollment of approximately 1,500 students from grades 9-12. Alvirne gets its name from a prominent Hudson family, the Alfred and Virginia Hills family, who left a large piece of property to the town in the early 20th...

  • Bishop Guertin
    Bishop Guertin High School
    Bishop Guertin is a college preparatory private Roman Catholic high school in Nashua, New Hampshire. It was founded by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in 1963. The school is located off Exit 4 of the F. E...

  • Dover
    Dover High School (New Hampshire)
    Dover Senior High School serves the city of Dover and the towns of Barrington and Nottingham, New Hampshire.In 2005, DHS became a New Hampshire School of Excellence....


  • Keene
    Keene High School
    Keene High School is a public high school located in Keene, New Hampshire. It serves the city of Keene and the surrounding towns of Chesterfield, Harrisville, Marlborough, Marlow, Nelson, Westmoreland and Winchester....

  • Manchester West
    Manchester High School West
    Manchester High School West, known as West High or West, is a public high school located in Manchester, New Hampshire. According to the Blue Book: Manchester High School West Hand Book , the school was officially opened in September 1923 as a grade school and high school, hosting the seventh and...

  • Merrimack
    Merrimack High School
    Merrimack High School is the public secondary school of the town of Merrimack, New Hampshire. It is located in a central area of town on 38 McElwain Street. About 1,600 students from grades 9 through 12 attend the school each year....


  • Spaulding
  • Timberlane
    Timberlane Regional High School
    Timberlane Regional High School is located in Plaistow, New Hampshire, and serves the towns of Atkinson, Danville, Plaistow, and Sandown, New Hampshire. TRHS was built in 1966 and is a part of the Timberlane Regional School District...

  • Winnacunnet
    Winnacunnet High School
    Winnacunnet High School is an American public high school located in Hampton, New Hampshire. It serves students in grades 9 through 12 who reside in the communities of Hampton, Seabrook, North Hampton, and Hampton Falls. Students from South Hampton have the option of attending either Winnacunnet...



Division III

  • Bedford
    Bedford High School (New Hampshire)
    Bedford High School is a public high school in the town of Bedford, New Hampshire. The high school adjoins the town's Ross A. Lurgio Middle School . The combined schools are situated on a campus at 47 Nashua Road. The two schools share an 800-seat theatre, a 2000-seat gymnasium, a FieldTurf...

  • ConVal
  • Goffstown
    Goffstown High School
    Goffstown High School, located in Goffstown, New Hampshire, USA, serves the towns of Goffstown, New Boston and Dunbarton. Goffstown High School has a total of 1,221 students as of September 3, 2008.- Administration :...


  • Hollis/Brookline
    Hollis/Brookline High School
    Hollis/Brookline High School is a public school located in Hollis, New Hampshire, serving the towns of Hollis and Brookline. It is administered by New Hampshire School Administration Unit 41.-History:...

  • Milford
  • Pelham

  • Pembroke
    Pembroke Academy
    Pembroke Academy is a secondary school in Pembroke, New Hampshire.-History:Pembroke Academy was incorporated on June 25, 1818, and the first building dedicated May 25, 1819. The academy opened with 48 students on May 26, 1819. The first headmaster of Pembroke Academy was the Reverend Amos Burnham...

  • Portsmouth
    Portsmouth High School (New Hampshire)
    Portsmouth High School is a public high school located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with a current enrollment of approximately 1,100. Accredited by the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the State of New Hampshire, the school serves the communities of Portsmouth, Rye,...

  • Souhegan
    Souhegan High School
    Souhegan High School is a Coalition of Essential Schools high school located in Amherst, New Hampshire. Students from Amherst and Mont Vernon attend Souhegan for 9th through 12th grades. There are about 872 students and over 160 faculty members...



Division IV

  • Hanover
    Hanover High School (New Hampshire)
    Hanover High School is the only public high school in the Dresden School District, in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. In 1963 it became the first interstate high school in the country as part of a bill that was the last ever signed into action by John F. Kennedy. Today it accepts students from...

  • John Stark
    John Stark Regional High School
    John Stark Regional High School PrincipalChris MoscaAsst. PrincipalsBrian Emery, Tina TanguaySchool typePublic Founded1987LocationWeare, Hillsborough County, New HampshireEnrollment913Campus surroundingsRural...

  • Kennett
    Kennett High School (New Hampshire)
    Kennett High School is an American high school located at 409 Eagles Way in North Conway, New Hampshire, near the village of Redstone. The present school building opened in 2007, replacing the former A. Crosby Kennett High School located at 176 Main Street in Conway, which is now a middle school...

  • Kingswood
    Kingswood Regional High School
    Kingswood Regional High School is a public secondary school located in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. It serves the communities of Brookfield, Effingham, Ossipee, New Durham, Tuftonboro, and Wolfeboro...


  • Laconia
  • Lebanon
    Lebanon High School (New Hampshire)
    Lebanon High School is the sole high school in the Lebanon School District in New Hampshire. Ranging from grades 9-12, students are from the city of Lebanon and the towns of Grantham and Plainfield....

  • Merrimack Valley
    Merrimack Valley High School
    Merrimack Valley is a four-year high school located in Penacook, a village in the northern part of Concord, New Hampshire. The school has approximately 900 students and serves the communities of Andover, Boscawen, Loudon, Penacook, Salisbury, and Webster...


  • Monadnock
    Monadnock Regional High School
    Monadnock Regional High School is a public school in Swanzey, New Hampshire. The school serves seven towns in the Monadnock region, including Fitzwilliam, Gilsum, Richmond, Roxbury, Sullivan, Swanzey, and Troy.- Scheduling :...

  • Plymouth
  • Trinity


Division V

  • Bishop Brady
    Bishop Brady High School
    Bishop Brady High School is a small, private, Catholic co-educational school in Concord, New Hampshire. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester. The official enrollment is 425 students attending. "A Catholic school, a caring community" is the slogan that adorns their sign and is...

  • Bow
    Bow High School
    Bow High School is a four-year public high school located in Bow, New Hampshire, USA, as part of the Bow School District. The principal is John House-Myers who took over in June 2006 from George Edwards who had been principal since the school's establishment....

  • Campbell
  • Fall Mountain
    Fall Mountain Regional High School
    Fall Mountain Regional High School is a small high school located in Langdon, New Hampshire, in the United States. The school, part of SAU 60 in New Hampshire, serves the towns of Langdon, Acworth, Alstead, Charlestown, and Walpole....


  • Kearsarge
    Kearsarge Regional High School
    Kearsarge Regional High School is a high school located in North Sutton, New Hampshire, serving the Kearsarge Regional School District. Kearsarge Regional High School serves students from the neighboring towns of New London, Wilmot, Newbury, Springfield, Warner and Bradford.Sports at the high...

  • Sanborn Regional
    Sanborn Regional High School
    Sanborn Regional High School is located in Kingston, New Hampshire and serves the towns of Kingston, Newton, and Fremont. SRHS is a part of the Sanborn Regional School District...

  • Somersworth

  • St. Thomas
    St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Dover, New Hampshire)
    St. Thomas Aquinas High School is a coeducational Catholic high school in Dover, New Hampshire, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester. It has a student population of approximately 650, and a faculty of 55.- History :...

  • Stevens
  • Windham


Division VI

  • Epping-Newmarket
    Newmarket Junior-Senior High School
    Newmarket Junior-Senior High School is the public high school and middle school for the town of Newmarket, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.The teacher to student ratio is 1:13 due to the small number of students....

  • Farmington
  • Franklin
    Franklin High School (New Hampshire)
    Franklin High School is located in Franklin, New Hampshire. Students come from Franklin and the neighboring town of Hill.Franklin is known in the area for its football, softball and baseball teams...

  • Gilford

  • Inter-Lakes
    Inter-Lakes High School
    Inter-Lakes High School is a high school in Meredith, New Hampshire. The school serves the towns of Meredith, Center Harbor, and Sandwich.The school competes in NHIAA Class M, and has teams in cross-country skiing, alpine skiing, soccer, basketball, tennis, baseball, softball and girls'...

  • Mascoma
    Mascoma Valley Regional High School
    Mascoma Valley Regional High School is a public secondary school in Canaan, New Hampshire. Surrounding towns that attend MVRHS are Grafton, Enfield, Orange, and Dorchester. The facility, opened in 1963, is located on Royal Road, off of U.S. Route 4. It is adjacent to the Indian River School,...

  • Newfound

  • Newport
  • Raymond
    Raymond High School
    Raymond High School is a public secondary school located in the town of Raymond, Mississippi . It is part of the Hinds County School District. As of 2005, the school had met all federal requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act and received an achievement index rank of "3" from the state of...

  • Winnisquam
    Winnisquam Regional High School
    Winnisquam Regional High School is a public high school located in Tilton, New Hampshire, in the United States. Students of the school are primarily from the towns of Sanbornton, Tilton, and Northfield, though some other towns are represented. The school is commonly referred to by its...



- Raymond High School played their first complete NHIAA competitive season in 2009

Champions

Year Division I Division II Division III Division IV Division V Division VI
2011 Exeter Bishop Guertin Portsmouth Trinity St. Thomas Inter-Lakes
2010 Pinkerton Academy Bishop Guertin Souhegan Lebanon Kearsarge Newport
2009 Salem Bishop Guertin Souhegan Plymouth Trinity Inter-Lakes
2008 Nashua South Bishop Guertin Souhegan Plymouth Pelham Franklin
2007 Pinkerton Academy Exeter Plymouth Laconia Pelham
2006 Pinkerton Academy Bishop Guertin Plymouth St. Thomas Bishop Brady
2005 Pinkerton Academy Bishop Guertin Plymouth Hanover Bishop Brady
2004 Manchester Central Bishop Guertin Souhegan Hanover Bow
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