The Hampstead School District is located in Hampstead, New Hampshire and includes two schools that serves roughly 800 students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 8th. Students in grades 9-12 attend Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire. Pinkerton is a public academy and the designated home school for all high school students residing in the towns of Auburn, Derry, Hooksett, Hampstead and Chester.

Hampstead, located in Rockingham County, is rich in history and often described as a picture postcard town with an elegant historic Main Street, characterized by antique colonial homes.

The town is 30 miles south of Concord, NH, 45 miles north of Boston, MA and 20 miles from the seacoast. Hampstead contains 13.4 square miles of land, approximately 8,350 acres, 400 of which are inland water areas of Big Island Pond, Sunset Lake, and Angle Pond. The lakes attract a significant seasonal population and summer youth camp to town.