One thing to consider about Newbury (the town) is that which part you live in determines the school. Newbury (the village) uses Newbury Elementary and Oxbow (the combined junior/senior high school), and Wells River (another village within the Town of Newbury) uses the PreK-12 Blue Mountain. When Act 46 was in flight there was talk about folding Blue Mountain into Oxbow but what was in the state meeting minutes amounted to "let's wait and see if Bradford and Newbury actually start to like each other before adding BM to the cluster and figuring out which buildings to close and how to split the grades"

I have a niece and nephew at Oxbow HS and another niece graduated last year. There's an active drama club, but the music program barely remains. There are definitely the usual "small school" issues with finding ways to challenge the potential superstars.