NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Lawrenceville, NJ

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7 public K-12 schools in Lawrenceville from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
3,690
Students
60.1/100
Avg Resource Index
10.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lawrenceville has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lawrenceville's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Lawrenceville's list includes 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Lawrenceville's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 99th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 13-point gap between Eldridge Park School and Lawrence High School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 61%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
96th percentile

Lawrence High School accounts for 33.2% of all Lawrenceville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lawrenceville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lawrenceville school enrollment varies 5.8× across entities

Lawrenceville school enrollment ranges from 212 students (lowest) to 1,225 students (highest), a spread of 1,013 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lawrenceville operates one school district — a single-district system

Lawrenceville's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lawrenceville student-teacher ratio is 10.7:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Eldridge Park School 64
2. Lawrence Intermediate School 63
3. Lawrenceville Elementary School 62
4. Slackwood Elementary School 61
5. Lawrence Middle School 60
6. Ben Franklin Elementary 60
7. Lawrence High School 51

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lawrenceville

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Lawrence High School 74.8/100
  2. 2 Lawrence Middle School 73.3/100
  3. 3 Lawrence Intermediate School 73.2/100
  4. 4 Ben Franklin Elementary 72.2/100
  5. 5 Slackwood Elementary School 70.2/100

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Which Lawrenceville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Eldridge Park School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lawrenceville schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lawrenceville, NJ? ▼

Lawrenceville has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,690 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.