James Russell Lowell Elementary School is a public elementary school serving 325 students in grades K-4 in Teaneck, New Jersey, which is part of the Teaneck School District. The school has shown strong performance in English Language Arts (ELA), with 3rd and 4th-grade students consistently outperforming the district and state averages on the NJSLA ELA assessments. However, the school's mathematics performance has been more mixed, with students sometimes outperforming and sometimes underperforming the district and state averages on the NJSLA Mathematics assessments.
One of the school's notable strengths is its performance for its African American and Hispanic student subgroups, which rank in the top quartile of New Jersey elementary schools. In contrast, the school's performance for its English Language Learner (ELL) and Special Education student subgroups has been more variable, with the ELL subgroup ranking highly in some years but the Special Education subgroup ranking in the bottom quartile in 2020-2021. The school's chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 13.8% to 22.5% in recent years, are also a concern and may be contributing to the variability in student performance.
Compared to other elementary schools in the Teaneck School District, James Russell Lowell Elementary School generally performs better on ELA assessments but has more mixed results on mathematics assessments. The school's performance is also stronger than that of some nearby schools, such as Fairmount Elementary in Hackensack, but lags behind the high-performing Cherry Hill School in the River Edge School District.
Students who attend James Russell Lowell Elementary School usually go on to attend:High : Teaneck High School
Students at James Russell Lowell Elementary School are 44% Hispanic, 29% African American, 13% White, 9% Asian, 2% Two or more races, 2% American Indian, 2% Pacific Islander.
Teaneck School District
James Russell Lowell Elementary School ranks 564th of 1338 New Jersey elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 3 stars out of 5.
In the 2023-24 school year, 305 students attended James Russell Lowell Elementary School.