Summary:
ZIP code 01840 in Lawrence, Massachusetts is home to two elementary schools — Francis M Leahy Elementary (525 students) and Henry K. Oliver Elementary (469 students) — both serving grades K–4 within the same Lawrence Public Schools district, for a combined enrollment of 994 children.
Henry K. Oliver is the relatively stronger school in mathematics and in overall state ranking, and it has the smaller classes, with a student-teacher ratio of 10.9 compared with 13.4 at Francis M Leahy. Oliver's biggest edge is Grade 3 math, where it scored 13.33% versus Leahy's 4.49%, and it also leads in all-grades math (11.30% vs 6.98%). Francis M Leahy holds a slight edge in English language arts and science — all-grades ELA is 10.53% versus 10.11% — and it showed far larger one-year improvement, gaining 5.75 points in ELA and 2.20 points in math, against Oliver's 0.34 and 0.79 points.
What parents should know most is that both schools are among the lowest-performing elementary schools in Massachusetts, ranking 891 of 899 and 880 of 899, while the district itself sits at the 4th percentile statewide with 0 stars. Every reported proficiency score at both schools falls below the district, which in turn falls far below the state — district ELA is 17.46% versus 40.03% statewide, and district math is 17.28% versus 41.11%. Science is a particular weakness for both schools. Because free/reduced-lunch information is not provided for either school, the socioeconomic context behind these numbers cannot be assessed from this data, and per-student spending figures are from 2020–2021 rather than the most recent year.
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