Arlington Elementary

Arlington Elementary is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in Lawrence, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Lawrence, serveing 558 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Arlington Elementary sits 46% bigger than that benchmark.

Lawrence comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 13,313 students; Arlington Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Arlington Elementary logs that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Arlington Elementary has 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $101,883 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Arlington Elementary is one of 221 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students).

Nearest neighbor: Arlington Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Arlington Elementary's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 587 (now 558).

On the community side, the feed for Arlington Elementary typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.