Summary:
The 08045 school list has one school, Lawnside School District, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 333 students. In 2025–2026, its average proficiency was 20% in English language arts (ELA), 12% in mathematics and 2% in science, compared with statewide averages of 51%, 40% and 23%, respectively. Results were below the state in every reported subject and grade—the most important finding for families comparing the available school with statewide performance.
Within the school, grade 6 was the strongest ELA result at 32% proficient, though that was 19 points below the state; grade 7 was the weakest relative to the state, at 14% versus 56%, a 42-point gap. Grade 3 led in mathematics at 24%, compared with 49% statewide, while grade 6 had the lowest result at 2% versus 40%. In science, grade 8 reached 3% and grade 5 0%; both were below state results, by 16 and 27 points, respectively. These are differences among grades at the only listed school, not comparisons between schools.
ELA weakened most from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: its average fell from 28% to 20%, while the state average declined from 54% to 51%; the average gap widened from 26 to 31 points. Grade 7 ELA fell from 32% to 14%. Mathematics was nearly flat overall at about 12%, but grade 3 improved from 14% to 24%, while grade 7 declined from 9% to 4%. SchoolDigger ranked the school in the 7th percentile statewide in 2025–2026, after the 8th percentile the prior year. As context, the school had a student–teacher ratio of 12.3 in 2024–2025, and 49% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; chronic absenteeism was 19%, versus 14% statewide. With only one school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison.
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