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Lilja Elementary
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lilja Elementary
Set in Natick, Massachusetts, Lilja Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary campus, part of Natick. It serves 445 students across grades K through 4.
Natick runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,348 students. Lilja Elementary is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Lilja Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment; the rest consists of 14% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial. Compared to Middlesex County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. The state averages about 12.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Middlesex County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lilja Elementary is one of 386 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students).
John D Hardy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lilja Elementary.
Lilja Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 431 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 74% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.
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