Cardinal O'Connell Early Learning Center

Cardinal O'Connell Early Learning Center is a very small elementary school in Lowell, Massachusetts. Students in pre-K make up the school's enrollment of 121 students. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Lowell enrolls 14,457 students, and its 27 schools include Cardinal O'Connell Early Learning Center.

The largest group at Cardinal O'Connell Early Learning Center is Hispanic students, at 34%. Smaller groups are 26% Asian, 20% Black, 14% White, and 5% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Middlesex County is roughly 9% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Cardinal O'Connell Early Learning Center scores 75%.

Cardinal O'Connell Early Learning Center reports a ratio of 10.2 students per teacher, from 11.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 10.2:1 compares with an average of 12.2:1 for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

The county, Middlesex County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $130,847, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 60% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county has 386 public schools and about 215,896 students.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, B.F. Butler Middle School, is about 0.3 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Locale data from NCES put Cardinal O'Connell Early Learning Center in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).

Reported enrollment: 70 (2020-21) and 121 (2024-25). These figures may describe different sets of grades. Students per teacher increased from 7.8 in 2020-21 to 10.2 in 2024-25.

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