LONDONDERRY – A 14-year-old Londonderry High School student was near death Friday when school officials discovered her drunk and unresponsive in the woods behind the gymnasium, Superintendent Nathan Greenberg confirmed last night.

Assistant Principal Arthur Psaledas discovered Destiny Foose shortly before 9 a.m., approximately 200 yards behind the school, where she and four friends had apparently gone to drink liquor upon arriving at school that morning, Greenberg said.

“They told us to call family,” the girl’s mother, Lisa Foose, said last night. “We thought she was going to die.”

Psaledas and School Resource Officer Mike Corl carried the girl out from the woods. An ambulance rushed her to Parkland Medical Center in Derry, where she was placed on a ventilator. Lisa Foose said her daughter was unresponsive for hours, and doctors were worried she would choke on her own vomit.

She remains at Boston Medical Center — where she was transported via ambulance Friday night — and is in stable condition.

Lisa Foose said tests revealed her daughter had smoked marijuana, and her blood alcohol content was .387, more than 19 times the legal limit for a minor in the state of New Hampshire. A blood alcohol content of .4 is considered lethal for 50 percent of the adult population.

When paramedics responded, the girl’s body temperature was 95 degrees Fahrenheit, which doctors said helped slow the absorption of alcohol, Lisa Foose said.

Three of the students returned to the building, Greenberg said. The one who remained with Destiny unsuccessfully tried to send a text message to a friend before leaving to get help, he said.

“The only thing that saved her life is that they did leave her in the snow bank and her body was slowed down by the hypothermia,” Foose said. “She would have died if it had been an August day or something.”

Foose said the students consumed scotch and rum, and that someone had given her daughter a pill that based on Destiny’s description a nurse determined was an amphetamine used to treat attention deficit disorder.

Greenberg said school administrators did discover liquor, but no drugs were recovered. The students will serve their second day of suspension today, but could be subject to further disciplinary action.

“At this point we’re pursuing all appropriate avenues to address the discipline,” Greenberg said, when asked if the students faced criminal charges.

The Londonderry Police Department referred all questions to a spokesman who was not available last night.

Destiny has been suspended several times for alcohol-related incidents this year, her mother said. Foose said she and her husband are looking for an alcohol rehabilitation facility for the 14-year-old.

“We don’t feel that even this taught her a lesson,” Foose said.

Still, she said administrators should have kept a closer eye on the wooded areas behind the school, where she claims they knew drinking had gone on before.

“If they’re going to this place, why are they not monitoring it, or having some type of security out there if they’re doing it every day,” she said. “And they are doing it every day.”

Greenberg defended administrators, crediting Psaledas with likely saving the girl’s life. Security cameras are located throughout and surrounding the school, but the area where the students were drinking is not visible from school grounds, he said.

If the students did not report to class that morning, administrators would not have begun to call parents until later that morning, since some students arrive late or do not have classes first thing in the morning.

“It was a very unfortunate set of circumstances and the school took all appropriate action,” he said. “We, I think, really had a significant impact on the student’s health.”