As Hooksett waits for answers on the fate of the town's relationship with Manchester High School Central, the High School Assessment Committee is busy working on a database.

The goal is to collect data from all schools attended by Hooksett students — including Pinkerton Academy in Derry, Bow High School and Pembroke Academy — with proposed categories including population, student/teacher ratio, technology use, ESL population, accreditation status and dropout rates.

“They're still counted as Hooksett students, but the school board really loses track of what's going on at these different schools,” said David Pearl, school board and committee member. “So the idea of this was to bring parents in to create a database that the school board could easily access to see what's being offered at these schools, how many children we have, and how they're doing at these schools.”

The High School Assessment Committee is not authorized to make any recommendations to the Hooksett School Board on Central's fitness for Hooksett students or plausible alternatives to the Manchester school.

“This was brought up well before Manchester had any budget trouble,” Pearl said.

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