Summary:
Zip code 08311 has one listed school, Myron L. Powell Elementary School, serving PK–8 with 479 students in the Lawrence Township School District; its most important pattern is a sharp contrast between above-state third-grade scores and much weaker eighth-grade results.
Myron L. Powell stands out at the top in third grade: 2025–2026 ELA was 54% versus 48% statewide, and math was 61% versus 49%, advantages of 6 and 12 percentage points. Its weakest results were in eighth grade: ELA was 28% versus 53% statewide, math was 0% versus 23%, and science was 6% versus 19%—gaps of 25, 23 and 13 points. Across grades 3–8, the school’s averages were 37% in ELA and 30% in math, compared with 51% and 40% statewide. Algebra I also depends on the comparison: the End-of-Course result was 53% versus 40% statewide, while the eighth-grade comparison was 53% versus 75% statewide.
Results moved in different directions over the two years: the school’s ELA average fell from 44% to 37%, widening its gap with the state from 9 to 14 points; its math average rose from 26% to 30%, narrowing the deficit from 14 to 10 points. SchoolDigger’s rank improved from 936 of 1,338 schools in 2023–2024 to 853 of 1,331 in 2025–2026, and its percentile rose from 30th to 36th, though its rating stayed at two stars. The school had a 10.9:1 student-teacher ratio and 50% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 14% for the school, district and state. With just one listed school, the data cannot support school-to-school comparisons.
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