Lawrence High School

Lawrence High School is one of the moderately sized high schools in LAWRENCEVILLE, New Jersey, run under Lawrence Township Public School District, with 1,225 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 929.

Lawrence Township Public School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,690 students; Lawrence High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lawrence High School logs that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 24% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 16% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Mercer County as a whole is about 46% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 37% of students at Lawrence High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Mercer County's rate of about 48%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lawrence High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -4.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate median household income runs about $100,645, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mercer County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 58,647 students), Lawrence High School is one campus in the mix.

Lawrence Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lawrence High School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lawrence High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lawrence High School has edged up 6%, going from 1,157 students in 2018 to 1,225 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 18% to 24% over that span.

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