Enrollment
320
Elementary
DISTRICT 283 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TEANECK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341608000856
James Russell Lowell Elementary School
1025 LINCOLN PLACE, TEANECK, NJ 07666 · (201) 833-5550 · Bergen County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL320 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 75% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.1:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
177 students
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 24% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 34% smaller than its 4th grade class (70).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
50.8%
NJ avg 53.1% . -11.0pp since 2023
Math
49.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.8% | 49.3% |
| 2023-24 | 61.8% | 42.4% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in New Jersey's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like James Russell Lowell Elementary School
James Russell Lowell Elementary School's state test result (50.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Russell Lowell Elementary School this school | 320 | 55.3% | 50.8% |
| Watsessing Elementary School Bloomfield | 333 | 52.9% | 38.6% |
| Number 9 Linden | 311 | 60.5% | 38.9% |
| Hazel Avenue Elementary School W ORANGE | 334 | 58.7% | 48.4% |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary School TEANECK | 334 | 53.6% | 52.5% |
| McGalliard Elementary School HAMILTON | 294 | 59.2% | 29.2% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where James Russell Lowell Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #507 of 1,290 | #103 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #603 of 1,319 ▲ 96 | #122 of 149 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #684 of 1,319 ▼ 268 | #129 of 149 ▼ 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 320 | #1,025 of 1,562 | #101 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #1,193 of 1,390 | #134 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.5% | #270 of 1,392 | #22 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.3% | #519 of 1,481 | #31 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.7% | #552 of 798 | #58 of 85 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
320
-13 (-4%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 251
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 10.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 320 | 23.4 | 13.7:1 | 55% (177) |
| 2023-24 | 305 | 36 | 8.5:1 | 49% (150) |
| 2022-23 | 325 | 35 | 9.3:1 | 38% (125) |
| 2020-21 | 333 | 33 | 10.1:1 | 45% (151) |
| 2017-18 | 343 | 31 | 11.1:1 | 48% (166) |
| 2015-16 | 303 | 28 | 10.8:1 | 10% (31) |
| 2010-11 | 350 | 19 | 18.4:1 | 38% (134) |
| 2000-01 | 411 | 29 | 14.2:1 | 24% (99) |
| 1990-91 | 251 | 13 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for James Russell Lowell Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (343 to 320); teachers down 25% (31 to 23.4).
About James Russell Lowell Elementary School
James Russell Lowell Elementary School is an elementary school in TEANECK, New Jersey, reachable at (201) 833-5550. The school covers kindergarten through 4 and reported 320 students in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average enrollment is about 405.
Besides James Russell Lowell Elementary School, Teaneck School District runs 7 other schools. The district enrolls 3,630 students.
Hispanic students account for 49% of enrollment at James Russell Lowell Elementary School, more than any other group. Other groups make up 27% Black, 12% White, 7% Asian, and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 23% of Bergen County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for James Russell Lowell Elementary School is 66%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
James Russell Lowell Elementary School lists 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.7 students per teacher. The gap from the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 2.2 students per teacher. About 55% of students at James Russell Lowell Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Bergen County is 28%.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, James Russell Lowell Elementary School outscored 75%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, James Russell Lowell Elementary School is in the top 10% of New Jersey schools: 50.8% actual against 35.9% predicted.
For the population of Bergen County, median household income comes to about $124,884, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bergen County counts 291 public schools with about 133,883 students.
Measured in a straight line, Benjamin Franklin Middle School is about 0.6 miles from James Russell Lowell Elementary School. The five-mile area around James Russell Lowell Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 46.1% proficiency; James Russell Lowell Elementary School posts 50.8%.
James Russell Lowell Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 320 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 333. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 10.1:1 to 13.7:1.
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Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Teaneck School District
- Teaneck High SchoolHigh · 1,244 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 463 students
- John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary SchoolElementary · 334 students
- William Cullen Bryant SchoolElementary · 283 students
Other schools in TEANECK
- Teaneck High SchoolHigh · 1,244 students
- Thomas Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Benjamin Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 463 students
- Teaneck Community Charter schoolElementary · 377 students
- John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Elementary SchoolElementary · 334 students
Nearby schools
- Benjamin Franklin Middle School0.6 mi · 463
- John Greenleaf Whittier Elementary School0.7 mi · 361
- Bergen County Academies0.7 mi · 1,130
- Teaneck High School0.8 mi · 1,244
- Teaneck Community Charter school0.8 mi · 377
- Theodora Smiley Lacey Elementary School1.0 mi · 115
Frequently asked questions
About James Russell Lowell Elementary SchoolHow large is James Russell Lowell Elementary School?
James Russell Lowell Elementary School enrolls approximately 320 students in grades KG-04.
Is James Russell Lowell Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
James Russell Lowell Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does James Russell Lowell Elementary School have?
James Russell Lowell Elementary School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at James Russell Lowell Elementary School?
At James Russell Lowell Elementary School, the student body is approximately 12% White, 49% Hispanic, 27% Black, 7% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is James Russell Lowell Elementary School public or private?
James Russell Lowell Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Teaneck School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.