Enrollment
362
Elementary
DISTRICT 334 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340411003306
Lawrence Brook Elementary School
48 SULLIVAN WAY, EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ 08816 · (732) 613-6870 · Middlesex County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL362 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% 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.
- 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
8.8:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
92 students
DISTRICT 25% · 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 | 63 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 9% smaller than its 4th grade class (69).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lawrence Brook Elementary School→Hammarskjold Upper Elementary School→Churchill Junior High School→East Brunswick High School
Based on grade levels within East Brunswick Township School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
64.4%
NJ avg 53.1% . -3.7pp since 2023
Math
67.4%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.4% | 67.4% |
| 2023-24 | 68.1% | 64.5% |
% 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
66.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Lawrence Brook Elementary School
Lawrence Brook Elementary School's state test result (66.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Brook Elementary School this school | 362 | 25.4% | 66.0% |
| Johnson Park School PRINCETON | 360 | 21.1% | 66.6% |
| Claremont Avenue Elementary School COLONIA | 306 | 24.8% | 62.6% |
| Memorial Elementary School EAST BRUNSWICK | 408 | 24.8% | 57.6% |
| Ben Franklin Elementary LAWRENCEVILLE | 342 | 21.3% | 55.0% |
| Berkley Street School NEW MILFORD | 415 | 27.0% | 59.2% |
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 Lawrence Brook Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #212 of 1,290 | #19 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.4% | #288 of 1,319 ▲ 6 | #21 of 111 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #400 of 1,319 ▼ 110 | #26 of 111 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 362 | #838 of 1,562 | #83 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.8:1 | #99 of 1,390 | #10 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.6% | #46 of 1,392 | #14 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.4% | #932 of 1,481 | #90 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #220 of 798 | #38 of 84 |
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
362
-69 (-16%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 352
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 362 | 41.4 | 8.8:1 | 25% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 361 | 40 | 9.0:1 | 19% (69) |
| 2022-23 | 357 | 41.2 | 8.7:1 | 23% (82) |
| 2020-21 | 431 | 42 | 10.3:1 | 26% (114) |
| 2017-18 | 439 | 40 | 11.0:1 | 26% (112) |
| 2015-16 | 406 | 39 | 10.4:1 | 23% (93) |
| 2010-11 | 523 | 35 | 14.9:1 | 19% (99) |
| 2000-01 | 454 | 24 | 18.9:1 | 5% (22) |
| 1990-91 | 352 | 21 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lawrence Brook Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (439 to 362); teachers up 3% (40 to 41.4).
About Lawrence Brook Elementary School
Lawrence Brook Elementary School is an elementary school located in EAST BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, in Middlesex County. It reports enrollment of 362 students in pre-K through 4.
Across its 11 schools, East Brunswick Township School District enrolls 8,096 students. Lawrence Brook Elementary School is one of those schools.
About 35% of students at Lawrence Brook Elementary School are White, the largest single group. After that, the student body is 27% Asian, 25% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 6% multiracial. A diversity index of 74% means there is a 74% chance two randomly chosen students at Lawrence Brook Elementary School are from different groups.
Lawrence Brook Elementary School reports a ratio of 8.8 students per teacher, from 41.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 11.4:1. Lunch program data show 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 17 points below the 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County.
On the allk12 Grade, Lawrence Brook Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 87% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Lawrence Brook Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of New Jersey schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 66.0% and a predicted 52.3%.
Middlesex County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $111,549 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Lawrence Brook Elementary School shares Middlesex County with 213 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Churchill Junior High School is about 0.5 miles from Lawrence Brook Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Lawrence Brook Elementary School comes in 2nd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decline of 69 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio was 10.3:1 in 2020-21 and 8.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Brunswick Township School District
- East Brunswick High SchoolHigh · 2,124 students
- Churchill Junior High SchoolMiddle · 2,080 students
- Hammarskjold Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 1,221 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Frost Elementary SchoolElementary · 383 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 349 students
Other schools in EAST BRUNSWICK
- East Brunswick High SchoolHigh · 2,124 students
- Churchill Junior High SchoolMiddle · 2,080 students
- Hammarskjold Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 1,221 students
- East Brunswick Magnet SchoolHigh · 745 students
- Hatikvah International Academy Charter SchoolElementary · 657 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
Nearby schools
- Churchill Junior High School0.5 mi · 2,080
- Parkview School1.1 mi · 338
- Joyce Kilmer School1.4 mi · 444
- Woodrow Wilson Elementary School1.7 mi · 351
- Memorial Elementary School2.0 mi · 408
- Central Elementary School2.0 mi · 349
Frequently asked questions
About Lawrence Brook Elementary SchoolHow large is Lawrence Brook Elementary School?
Lawrence Brook Elementary School enrolls approximately 362 students in grades PK-04.
Is Lawrence Brook Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lawrence Brook Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many teachers does Lawrence Brook Elementary School have?
Lawrence Brook Elementary School employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Lawrence Brook Elementary School?
Student demographics at Lawrence Brook Elementary School are roughly 35% White, 25% Hispanic, 7% Black, 27% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Lawrence Brook Elementary School in?
Lawrence Brook Elementary School is part of East Brunswick Township School District.
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