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Letourneau Elementary School
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (93).
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 9 points.
MCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 21.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 21.0% |
| 2022-23 | 28.0% | 15.0% |
| 2021-22 | 29.0% | 17.0% |
| 2020-21 | 28.0% | 12.0% |
| 2018-19 | 36.0% | 35.0% |
| 2017-18 | 36.0% | 32.0% |
| 2016-17 | 36.0% | 30.0% |
Where Letourneau Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Massachusetts | In Bristol County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #776 of 920 ▲ 6 | #53 of 69 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #762 of 920 ▼ 72 | #55 of 69 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #325 of 901 | #31 of 69 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 566 | #162 of 1,086 | #21 of 82 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #743 of 938 | #49 of 75 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.5% | #92 of 938 | #10 of 75 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #374 of 602 | #30 of 51 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 566 | 41.3 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 618 | 45 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 597 | 34.7 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 542 | 38 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 618 | 39.8 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 599 | 36 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 589 | 35 | 16.8:1 | 80% (470) |
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (618 to 566); teachers up 4% (39.8 to 41.3).
About Letourneau Elementary School
The public elementary school Letourneau Elementary School is located in Fall River, Massachusetts. It is open to students in kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 566 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Massachusetts enroll about 381 students on average.
Letourneau Elementary School belongs to Fall River, a district of 19 schools and 11,089 students.
No group is above 50% at Letourneau Elementary School; the largest is White, at 38%. Beyond that, enrollment is 38% Hispanic, 15% Black, and 7% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 77%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Letourneau Elementary School scores 68%.
Its staff includes 41.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.7 students per teacher. The gap from the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is 1.6 students per teacher.
For Bristol County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $85,625, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county has 142 public schools and about 80,897 students.
Atlantis Charter School is about 0.7 miles from Letourneau Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Letourneau Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools.
Locale data from NCES put Letourneau Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
The school's enrollment rose 4% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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