Lake Hiawatha Elementary School

Lake Hiawatha Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, operated by Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District, serves 445 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 14 schools in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township School District (7,027 students total), Lake Hiawatha Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lake Hiawatha Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Asian (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 25% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 11% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Lake Hiawatha Elementary School logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Lake Hiawatha Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Lake Hiawatha Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 65.3%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Morris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $137,326 per year, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Morris County runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), of which Lake Hiawatha Elementary School is one.

Parsippany High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lake Hiawatha Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 13%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Lake Hiawatha Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.