Enrollment
351
Elementary
DISTRICT 328 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAMILTON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340654003112
Lalor Elementary School
25 BARNT DEKLYN ROAD, HAMILTON, NJ 08610 · (609) 631-4156 · Mercer County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL351 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
12.8:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
292 students
DISTRICT 54% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
43%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
18.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
13.3%
NJ avg 41.6% . -2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.6% | 13.3% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 15.8% |
% 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
14.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.6%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Lalor Elementary School
Lalor Elementary School's state test result (14.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lalor Elementary School this school | 351 | 83.2% | 14.9% |
| Donald Stewart Early Childhood Center No 51 ELIZABETH | 310 | 83.5% | N/A |
| Paul S. Robeson Elementary School TRENTON | 390 | 81.8% | 3.9% |
| Benjamin Franklin School No. 13 ELIZABETH | 392 | 88.0% | 12.8% |
| Clinton Elementary School PLAINFIELD | 386 | 83.9% | 18.7% |
| Central Elementary School Orange | 369 | 86.7% | N/A |
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 Lalor Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Mercer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.9% | #1,200 of 1,290 | #45 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.3% | #1,238 of 1,319 ▼ 72 | #47 of 56 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #1,239 of 1,319 ▼ 18 | #43 of 56 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 351 | #890 of 1,562 | #31 of 60 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #1,049 of 1,390 | #41 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.5% | #991 of 1,392 | #46 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.2% | #162 of 1,481 | #14 of 58 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +46.3% | #29 of 545 | #2 of 22 |
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
351
+108 (+44%) vs 2020
+81% since 1990-91, when it was 194
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 351 | 27.5 | 12.8:1 | 83% (292) |
| 2023-24 | 347 | 24.5 | 14.2:1 | 80% (277) |
| 2022-23 | 337 | 25 | 13.5:1 | 80% (269) |
| 2020-21 | 243 | 22 | 11.1:1 | 78% (189) |
| 2017-18 | 240 | 22 | 10.9:1 | 73% (174) |
| 2015-16 | 234 | 20 | 11.7:1 | 77% (181) |
| 2010-11 | 268 | 17 | 15.8:1 | 52% (139) |
| 2000-01 | 250 | 15 | 16.7:1 | 33% (82) |
| 1990-91 | 194 | 12 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lalor Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 46% (240 to 351); teachers up 25% (22 to 27.5).
About Lalor Elementary School
Lalor Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of HAMILTON, New Jersey. The school enrolls 351 students in pre-K through 5.
Lalor Elementary School is part of a district of 23 schools: Hamilton Township Public School District, with 12,355 students.
More than half of enrollment at Lalor Elementary School is Hispanic: 73%. Other groups include 19% Black, 4% White, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 23% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 43, compared with 70 nationally.
Lalor Elementary School reported 27.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 12.8:1. The school's 12.8:1 compares with an average of 11.4:1 for elementary schools in New Jersey. Roughly 83% of students at Lalor Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 48% average for public schools in Mercer County.
On the allk12 Grade, Lalor Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 8% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Lalor Elementary School is 5.7 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (14.9% versus 20.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New Jersey.
In the surrounding county, Mercer County, the median household earns about $100,645 a year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Lalor Elementary School, Mercer County has 110 public schools.
Lalor Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Grace A Dunn Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Lalor Elementary School ranks 6th of 9 nearby schools, at 14.9% versus a 19.7% average.
The federal government classifies Lalor Elementary School's location as Suburb: Large.
Lalor Elementary School enrolled 243 in 2020-21 and 351 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 11.1:1 to 12.8:1.
This page collects posts and questions about Lalor Elementary School, such as fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Mercer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
385,864
Census ACS
Median income
$100,645
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
110
58,647 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hamilton Township Public School District
- Hamilton East - SteinertHigh · 1,437 students
- Hamilton West-WatsonHigh · 1,408 students
- Hamilton North - NottinghamHigh · 1,147 students
- Albert E Grice Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Emily C. Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Richard C Crockett Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
Other schools in HAMILTON
- Hamilton East - SteinertHigh · 1,437 students
- Hamilton West-WatsonHigh · 1,408 students
- Hamilton North - NottinghamHigh · 1,147 students
- Albert E Grice Middle SchoolMiddle · 991 students
- Emily C. Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Richard C Crockett Middle SchoolMiddle · 834 students
Nearby schools
- Grace A Dunn Middle School0.3 mi · 703
- Pace Charter School of Hamilton0.5 mi · 463
- Franklin Elementary School0.7 mi · 372
- Gershom Mott Elementary School0.8 mi · 375
- William Harrison Elementary School0.8 mi · 243
- International Charter School0.8 mi · 108
Frequently asked questions
About Lalor Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Lalor Elementary School?
Lalor Elementary School enrolls approximately 351 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Lalor Elementary School serve?
Lalor Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Lalor Elementary School?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Lalor Elementary School.
How diverse is Lalor Elementary School?
Lalor Elementary School reports a student body of 4% White, 73% Hispanic, 19% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Lalor Elementary School?
Lalor Elementary School is overseen by Hamilton Township Public School District in Mercer County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.