Lalor Elementary School

Lalor Elementary School, a moderately sized elementary school in HAMILTON, New Jersey, one of the schools within Hamilton Township Public School District, works with 351 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Hamilton Township Public School District comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 12,355 students; Lalor Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Lalor Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Lalor Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Mercer County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lalor Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.6%, the actual is 14.9%, a residual of -5.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Mercer County put the typical household earns roughly $100,645 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Lalor Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Grace A Dunn Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lalor Elementary School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 19.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Lalor Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 46% since 2018, when it stood at 240 (now 351). Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Lalor Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.