Public school / Primary
James Russell Lowell
Watertown, Massachusetts
- NCES ID
- 251218002002
- District
- Watertown
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
James Russell Lowell is a public primary school in Watertown, Massachusetts, run by Watertown. It enrols 355 students — the 57728th largest of 1,862 public schools in Massachusetts.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
355
Teachers
41.0
Students per teacher
8.7
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Within Watertown
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Watertown High733 students
- 2Hosmer716 students
- 3Watertown Middle532 students
- 4James Russell Lowell355 students
- 5Cunniff326 students
- Enrollment−21.7%
- Teachers+17.1%
- Students per teacher−26.9%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory