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What's something Lake Hiawatha Elementary School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
445
Elementary
DISTRICT 341 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341248000401
Lake Hiawatha Elementary School
1 Lincoln Avenue, Lake Hiawatha, NJ 07034 · (973) 263-4344 · Morris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL445 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
12.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
92 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 99 | 22% |
| Kindergarten | 42 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 42% smaller than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
63.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . -5.1pp since 2023
Math
69.2%
NJ avg 41.6% . -4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.1% | 69.2% |
| 2023-24 | 68.2% | 73.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.9%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 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 Lake Hiawatha Elementary School
Lake Hiawatha Elementary School's state test result (65.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Hiawatha Elementary School this school | 445 | 20.7% | 65.3% |
| Anna C. Scott Elementary School Leonia | 517 | 18.2% | 64.7% |
| Cambridge Elementary School KENDALL PARK | 416 | 15.6% | 67.1% |
| Constable Elementary School KENDALL PARK | 476 | 19.5% | 58.1% |
| School No. 2 FORT LEE | 362 | 24.6% | 71.5% |
| Knollwood Elementary School Lake Hiawatha | 394 | 29.2% | 60.4% |
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 Lake Hiawatha Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Morris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #228 of 1,290 | #29 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #255 of 1,319 ▼ 99 | #32 of 77 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.1% | #423 of 1,319 ▼ 135 | #54 of 77 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 445 | #556 of 1,562 | #19 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #951 of 1,390 | #78 of 89 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #368 of 1,392 | #17 of 89 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.7% | #1,025 of 1,481 | #33 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.7% | #192 of 545 | #17 of 40 |
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
445
+22 (+5%) vs 2020
+1248% since 2000-01, when it was 33
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 445 | 36.2 | 12.3:1 | 21% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 462 | 35.3 | 13.1:1 | 19% (88) |
| 2022-23 | 449 | 34.3 | 13.1:1 | 12% (55) |
| 2020-21 | 423 | 33 | 12.8:1 | 13% (54) |
| 2017-18 | 395 | 33.6 | 11.8:1 | 17% (66) |
| 2015-16 | 429 | 30 | 14.3:1 | 14% (62) |
| 2010-11 | 388 | 17 | 22.8:1 | 12% (45) |
| 2000-01 | 33 | N/A | N/A | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Hiawatha Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (395 to 445); teachers up 8% (33.6 to 36.2).
About Lake Hiawatha Elementary School
Lake Hiawatha Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, administered by Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District. There are 445 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5.
Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District enrolls 7,027 students in 14 schools, including Lake Hiawatha Elementary School.
Asian students are 52% of those enrolled at Lake Hiawatha Elementary School. Next come 25% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. That compares with about 11% Asian among all Morris County residents. A diversity index of 63% means there is a 63% chance two randomly chosen students at Lake Hiawatha Elementary School are from different groups.
There are about 12.3 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Lake Hiawatha Elementary School, which has 36.2. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New Jersey is 11.4:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Lake Hiawatha Elementary School is about 21%. The average for public schools in Morris County is similar, at 19%.
Among New Jersey public elementary schools, Lake Hiawatha Elementary School outscored 84%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Lake Hiawatha Elementary School is 10.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (65.3% versus 54.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Jersey.
In Morris County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $137,326, about 58% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. There are 156 public schools in the county, enrolling about 72,239, Lake Hiawatha Elementary School among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Parsippany High School, is about 0.5 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Lake Hiawatha Elementary School places 5th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 445 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 423.
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Morris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
514,528
Census ACS
Median income
$137,326
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
72,239 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District
- Parsippany Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,035 students
- Brooklawn Middle SchoolMiddle · 925 students
- Parsippany High SchoolHigh · 900 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 755 students
- Knollwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
- Littleton Elementary SchoolElementary · 392 students
Other schools in Lake Hiawatha
- Knollwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
Nearby schools
- Parsippany High School0.5 mi · 900
- Knollwood Elementary School0.7 mi · 394
- Northvail Elementary School0.8 mi · 359
- Rockaway Meadow Elementary School1.0 mi · 257
- Central Middle School1.1 mi · 755
- Troy Hills Elementary School1.8 mi · 290
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Hiawatha Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Lake Hiawatha Elementary School?
Lake Hiawatha Elementary School enrolls approximately 445 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lake Hiawatha Elementary School serve?
Lake Hiawatha Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lake Hiawatha Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lake Hiawatha Elementary School is approximately 12.3:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lake Hiawatha Elementary School?
Lake Hiawatha Elementary School reports a student body of 25% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 52% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Lake Hiawatha Elementary School public or private?
Lake Hiawatha Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.