New Hampshire Personal Finance Standards & Graduation Requirements
New Hampshire requires personal finance literacy as its own subject area in every school's curriculum, applicable since the 2023-24 school year, and NGPF lists the class of 2027 as the first graduating class required to take the course.
New Hampshire at a glance
- Requirement
- Standards-based requirement
- Legislation or authority
- HB 1671 (2022, Chapter 273), adding personal finance literacy to the adequate-education learning areas in RSA 193-E:2-a; HB 1263 (2022) amending RSA 189:10; State Board minimum standards Ed 306.27
- Passed
- HB 1671 signed June 24, 2022 (effective August 23, 2022); HB 1263 effective July 26, 2022
- Takes effect
- HB 1671's personal finance literacy requirement applies from the 2023-24 school year
- First graduating class affected
- Class of 2027
- Course length
- Ed 306.27 lists one-half (0.5) credit in economics, including personal finance; NH DOE's technical advisory calls personal finance literacy a stand-alone subject requirement and notes that the skills may also be embedded in an existing course
- State standards
- NH Minimum Standards for School Approval, Ed 306.27 (economics, including personal finance)
What New Hampshire requires
New Hampshire made personal finance literacy its own subject area in the content of an adequate education through HB 1671, signed June 24, 2022. The requirement was not applicable until the 2023-24 school year. A companion law, HB 1263, amended RSA 189:10 so that personal finance literacy is taught as part of the basic curriculum, with instruction designed to prepare students for success in making financial decisions.
The State Board's minimum standards (Ed 306.27) list a half credit in economics, including personal finance. New Hampshire is a competency-based state, and the Department of Education's September 2022 technical advisories say the skills may be embedded in an existing course as well as taught on their own, so districts decide how to deliver it. The state's rules set the credit, not a separate list of personal finance standards, so the crosswalk below maps Rapunzl to the six Council for Economic Education pillars.
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How Rapunzl maps to New Hampshire standards
Rapunzl's curriculum is built on the Council for Economic Education's six pillars. Here is how they line up with the New Hampshire framework.
| New Hampshire strand | CEE pillar | Rapunzl modules |
|---|---|---|
| Earning income | Earning Income | Taxes & IncomeCareers In Finance |
| Spending | Spending | The Basics Of BankingBuying Your First HomePaying For College |
| Saving | Saving | Saving Versus InvestingThe Basics Of Banking |
| Investing | Investing | Welcome To The Stock MarketWhat Makes A Good Stock?ETFs & Mutual Funds |
| Managing credit | Managing Credit | The Power & Risks Of CreditHow To Make Loans Work For You |
| Managing risk | Managing Risk | Diversification & RiskInsurance & Retirement |
Educators can request a full New Hampshire standards crosswalk through the Educator Dashboard.
Why New Hampshire schools choose Rapunzl
Rapunzl pairs a standards-aligned curriculum with a real-time investment simulator, so students learn personal finance by making real decisions with simulated $10,000 portfolios priced on live market data, not by reading about it. The curriculum scales from a three-week unit to a 28-week year-long course, which means it fits whichever shape New Hampshire's requirement takes in your district.
- 150,000+students reached since 2018
- 93%average score on Rapunzl's own post-program assessment, up from 34% before the program and 26 percentage points above the national adult average (NFEC) of 67%
- 48interactive modules across 4 courses that can be customized into a course progression for your classroom
- 20+hours of gameplay in 2 interactive mini-games alongside our investment simulator and financial calculators
Teachers get an educator dashboard with grade export and standards crosswalks, English and Spanish materials, screen-reader accessibility, and a free national scholarship competition their students can enter each January.
New Hampshire personal finance requirement FAQ
New Hampshire requires personal finance literacy as its own subject area in every school's curriculum, applicable since the 2023-24 school year, and NGPF lists the class of 2027 as the first graduating class required to take the course.
The requirement is set by HB 1671 (2022, Chapter 273), adding personal finance literacy to the adequate-education learning areas in RSA 193-E:2-a; HB 1263 (2022) amending RSA 189:10; State Board minimum standards Ed 306.27.
Takes effect: HB 1671's personal finance literacy requirement applies from the 2023-24 school year.
Ed 306.27 lists one-half (0.5) credit in economics, including personal finance; NH DOE's technical advisory calls personal finance literacy a stand-alone subject requirement and notes that the skills may also be embedded in an existing course.
New Hampshire's requirement is a standards-based requirement.
In practice that means the state sets the financial literacy standards students have to meet and lets each district decide how to teach them.
The Class of 2027 is the first graduating class that has to meet it, so earlier classes are not held to the requirement.
Timeline: HB 1671's personal finance literacy requirement applies from the 2023-24 school year.
If you are planning a course now, that timeline is the window to have curriculum in place before New Hampshire starts holding students to it.
NH Minimum Standards for School Approval, Ed 306.27 (economics, including personal finance).
Rapunzl's curriculum is built on the Council for Economic Education's six pillars: Earning Income, Spending, Saving, Investing, Managing Credit, and Managing Risk. Those pillars map to every strand in the framework, which is why the same course can satisfy standards that are worded differently from one state to the next.
Yes. Rapunzl's modules and real-time investing simulator cover the CEE six pillars, and those pillars crosswalk to the New Hampshire strands listed on this page.
Students learn by making real decisions with a simulated $10,000 portfolio priced on live market data, and teachers get an educator dashboard with grade export, materials in English and Spanish, and screen-reader accessibility.
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