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Lt Job Lane School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lt Job Lane School
Lt Job Lane School is a moderately sized primary school in Bedford, Massachusetts, run under Bedford. The school hosts 540 students in grades 3 through 5. That puts it 42% larger than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 381 students.
Bedford comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,513 students; Lt Job Lane School is among them.
Demographically, Lt Job Lane School shows that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 25% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lt Job Lane School is one of 386 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students).
Bedford High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lt Job Lane School has contracted 11%, going from 609 students in 2018 to 540 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 70% to 53%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.
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