Summary:
Lawrence Family Development Charter (District) is a single-school charter district in Lawrence, Massachusetts, whose only campus — Lawrence Family Development Charter School — serves grades PK through 8 with 899 students and a student–teacher ratio of 12.8, so every district-level number in the data is really a school-level number.
Academically, the school sits below the Massachusetts average in every reported subject. In 2025–2026, English Language Arts was 27.2 against a state figure of 40.03, math was 22.0 against 41.11, and science was 22.97 against 40.98. Math is the deepest weakness: the school reaches roughly half the state rate in that subject, compared with about two-thirds of the state rate in ELA. The brightest spot is fifth grade, whose math score of 34.15 came within 5.35 points of the state — the closest result anywhere in the file and 12 points above the school's own all-grades math figure. The weakest spots are concentrated in specific cohorts: grade 4 math (16.35 against 43.2), grade 7 math (14.86, the lowest score in the data), and grade 6 ELA (16.22 against 40.26). Eighth-grade civics, once the school's strongest relative result at just 2.80 points under the state, fell 7.57 points to 28.79.
For parents, the most useful framing is that this is a school with localized strengths rather than uniform weakness, and its results are uneven from grade to grade rather than consistently low across the board. Year over year, ELA and math barely moved, while science and civics declined. The school's statewide rank of 711 of 899 (21st percentile, 1 star) improved from 13th percentile the prior year, though that shift came while its own scores stayed flat. Two context gaps matter: free/reduced-price lunch is not reported, so economic background is unknown, and the per-student spending figure of $14,906 dates to 2020–2021, making it historical context rather than a current explanation for outcomes.
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