About Lawrence School District
Lawrence School District is a public school system serving Essex County, Massachusetts, based in Lawrence. It serves 13,313 students across 26 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #7 largest of Massachusetts’s 395 school systems.
Size and structure
Lawrence School District enrolls 13,313 students in 26 schools — an average of about 512 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #7 of 395 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Lawrence School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (13,313 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Lawrence School District employs about 1,160 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1 — below the Massachusetts average of about 11.9:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 2,275.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Massachusetts funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Lawrence School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Massachusetts does not assign A–F letter grades; its DESE accountability system reports an accountability percentile (1–99) and a criterion-referenced classification of whether a district is meeting its targets, across achievement, growth, high-school completion, English-learner progress and chronic absenteeism. Look up Lawrence School District on the Massachusetts school and district report cards.
Accreditation status
The main voluntary K-12 accreditor for Massachusetts is NEASC (the New England Association of Schools and Colleges), an elective, membership-based process. Search Lawrence School District’s schools in the NEASC directory.
Lawrence School District vs. Massachusetts
See every Massachusetts district side by side in the Massachusetts directory.
Look up Lawrence School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):