John J Shaughnessy

Summary:

John J Shaughnessy is an elementary school in Lowell, MA that serves students from pre-kindergarten to 4th grade. The school has a diverse student population, with 43.42% Hispanic, 26.3% Asian, 20.67% White, and 5.22% African American students.

Despite its diverse student body, John J Shaughnessy has consistently underperformed compared to the Lowell district and the state of Massachusetts on MCAS assessments. In the 2023-2024 school year, only 19.88% of students were proficient or better in English Language Arts, compared to 22.78% in Lowell and 39.17% statewide. In Mathematics, 26.06% of students were proficient or better, compared to 28.52% in Lowell and 40.91% statewide. The school has also maintained a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger and ranks in the bottom quarter of Massachusetts elementary schools.

When comparing John J Shaughnessy to other nearby elementary schools in Lowell, such as Dr. Gertrude Bailey and Peter W. Reilly, it becomes clear that the school is underperforming. Additionally, the Lowell Community Charter Public School, located about 1.2 miles from John J Shaughnessy, outperforms the school and the Lowell district as a whole on MCAS assessments.


Detail:

Public PK, KG-4

 1158 Gorham Street
       Lowell, MA  01852


(978) 937-7657

District: Lowell

SchoolDigger Rank:
775th of 916 Massachusetts Elementary Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $17,053 Help


Students who attend John J Shaughnessy usually attend:

Middle:    B.F. Butler Middle School
    Henry J Robinson Middle
    James Sullivan Middle School
    Laura Lee Therapeutic Day School
High:    Leblanc Therapeutic Day School
    Lowell High

Student/teacher ratio:  11.9 Help
Number of students:  479

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
43.4%
Asian:
26.3%
White:
20.7%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  77% Help


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Performance Trends
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Compare Details John J Shaughnessy ranks worse than 84.6% of elementary schools in Massachusetts. It also ranks 12th among 15 ranked elementary schools in the Lowell School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 17.05. (See more...)
Student Body
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Compare Details Student population at John J Shaughnessy is diverse. Racial makeup is: Hispanic (43.4%), Asian (26.3%), White (20.7%). (See more...)
Teachers
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at John J Shaughnessy is 11.9, which is the 7th best among 15 elementary schools in the Lowell School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at John J Shaughnessy is $17,053. 10 elementary schools in the Lowell School District spend more per student.
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

John J Shaughnessy:

SchoolDigger ranks John J Shaughnessy 775th of 916 Massachusetts public elementary schools. (See John J Shaughnessy in the ranking list.)

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Lowell:

SchoolDigger ranks Lowell 302nd of 351 Massachusetts school districts. (See district ranking list.)

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Rank History for John J Shaughnessy

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Rank History for all students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2003 18.19 739th 884 16.4%
2004 10.83 794th 882 10.0%
2005 7.96 835th 887 5.9%
2006 7.60 864th 911 5.2%
2007 11.30 830th 911 8.9%
2008 13.72 806th 908 11.2%
2009 8.55 850th 909 6.5%
2010 21.15 767th 920 16.6%
2011 15.62 796th 924 13.9%
2012 9.14 863rd 930 7.2%
2013 23.67 748th 928 19.4%
2014 23.24 756th 926 18.4%
2015 20.04 764th 914 16.4%
2016 36.76 629th 932 32.5%
2017 49.31 491st 938 47.7%
2018 38.36 610th 934 34.7%
2019 39.05 607th 942 35.6%
2021 20.05 746th 936 20.3%
2022 26.98 684th 932 26.6%
2023 15.79 800th 928 13.8%
2024 17.05 775th 916 15.4%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 87.62 20th 244 91.8%
2019 89.19 14th 258 94.6%
2021 78.47 16th 240 93.3%
2022 46.96 101st 267 62.2%
2023 52.71 70th 264 73.5%
2024 60.44 55th 282 80.5%
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Rank History for Special Education students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 59.06 319th 886 64.0%
2019 60.44 291st 896 67.5%
2021 31.90 640th 894 28.4%
2022 41.22 542nd 905 40.1%
2023 22.27 603rd 703 14.2%
2024 13.16 731st 731 0.0%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 60.67 215th 685 68.6%
2019 65.16 189th 700 73.0%
2021 30.34 525th 705 25.5%
2022 41.44 466th 772 39.6%
2023 34.44 538th 757 28.9%
2024 32.24 565th 760 25.7%
See the entire list of Best Massachusetts Elementary Schools for Low Socio Economic Status Students!

Rank History for Female students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 38.48 587th 893 34.3%
2019 44.69 533rd 902 40.9%
2021 22.44 699th 898 22.2%
2022 27.01 663rd 901 26.4%
2023 14.04 789th 887 11.0%
2024 18.21 745th 886 15.9%
See the entire list of Best Massachusetts Elementary Schools for Female Students!

Rank History for Disabled students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 23.79 550th 656 16.2%
2019 39.89 375th 665 43.6%
2022 30.28 466th 672 30.7%
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Rank History for Male students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 37.73 586th 898 34.7%
2019 35.96 612th 907 32.5%
2021 22.93 699th 904 22.7%
2022 29.05 657th 908 27.6%
2023 21.36 718th 896 19.9%
2024 18.61 746th 891 16.3%
See the entire list of Best Massachusetts Elementary Schools for Male Students!

Rank History for Tested In Person students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 15.88 783rd 925 15.4%
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Rank History for Tested Remotely students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 34.34 241st 399 39.6%
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Rank History for Asian students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 18.65 139th 154 9.7%
2019 16.46 136th 155 12.3%
2021 10.50 128th 141 9.2%
2022 13.10 130th 143 9.1%
2023 2.55 141st 145 2.8%
2024 3.85 149th 152 2.0%
See the entire list of Best Massachusetts Elementary Schools for Asian Students!

Rank History for Hispanic students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 46.52 193rd 379 49.1%
2019 44.56 221st 398 44.5%
2021 39.78 204th 379 46.2%
2022 46.02 180th 401 55.1%
2023 38.12 263rd 420 37.4%
2024 32.21 321st 446 28.0%
See the entire list of Best Massachusetts Elementary Schools for Hispanic Students!

Rank History for White students at John J Shaughnessy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools MA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 29.88 602nd 772 22.0%
2019 24.95 648th 780 16.9%
2021 11.16 710th 765 7.2%
2022 18.97 673rd 764 11.9%
2023 3.49 754th 762 1.0%
See the entire list of Best Massachusetts Elementary Schools for White Students!

Data source: test scores: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

Redacting data from low population samples is a necessary step to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the results, as small sample sizes may not be representative of the broader population. Additionally, this measure helps protect the privacy of individuals belonging to these demographic groups.

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Data source: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

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Reviews:
by a parent
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Open Quote Horrible school. Horrible District. Worse if your child is of mixed race and special needs. Take your child somewhere else if you can. They purposely marked my daughter down as "white" just to up their percentage on these websites and refused to changed it wen you ask. You can walk around that school and see that school is not over 25 white. The only thing that is over 25 is the staff. They completely lake so much diversity in the district that the school district really needs to have a meeting to hire more diversity! They are changing paperwork on children's files and marking them down as "white" when they are not. My daughter is half white and half African American. The district knows and refuses to change it. The school is complete racist. They skip over Black History Month but all her teacher talked about was her Irish heritage. Her teacher even told the class that slaves where immigrants and had the choice to come here! On top of all that my daughter has a very serious mental health condition. They teachers and rest of the staff do not take it seriously. When she is having a mental breakdown instead of going to the approved plan they belittle her or treat her like she is brat and tell her thing like "no one thinks your special" , "stop pouting". She already threatening to kill herself once in class over all of this and the staff and school officials and district don't care. Close Quote



Enrollment information for John J Shaughnessy

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 149 28 65 95 0 n/a n/a 0 337
1989 139 25 68 62 0 n/a n/a 0 294
1990 123 11 119 52 0 n/a n/a 0 305
1991 110 10 117 47 0 n/a n/a 0 284
1992 234 20 247 49 1 n/a n/a 0 551
1993 280 18 208 56 3 n/a n/a 0 565
1994 289 22 213 57 0 n/a n/a 0 581
1995 276 20 172 64 1 n/a n/a 0 533
1996 276 20 172 64 1 n/a n/a 0 533
1997 279 24 188 49 0 n/a n/a 0 540
1998 282 22 190 72 0 n/a n/a 0 566
1999 257 15 171 83 1 n/a n/a 0 527
2000 263 24 171 72 1 n/a n/a 0 531
2001 243 19 161 70 2 n/a n/a 0 495
2002 238 16 147 55 2 n/a n/a 0 458
2003 238 16 147 55 2 n/a n/a 0 458
2004 243 20 142 69 2 n/a n/a 0 476
2005 214 22 149 78 2 n/a n/a 0 465
2006 206 24 153 88 1 n/a n/a 0 472
2007 192 20 137 80 0 n/a n/a 1 430
2008 182 18 132 90 0 n/a n/a 9 431
2009 192 21 129 111 0 1 12 0 466
2010 192 17 118 113 2 1 16 0 459
2011 189 17 121 124 1 1 17 0 470
2012 176 23 121 127 2 1 19 0 469
2013 176 26 126 130 1 0 24 0 483
2014 176 22 145 138 0 0 26 0 507
2015 144 28 141 150 0 0 23 0 486
2016 140 23 146 161 1 0 22 0 493
2017 125 21 143 174 1 0 20 0 484
2018 132 25 134 154 1 0 16 0 462
2019 137 33 136 172 2 0 13 0 493
2020 111 25 148 184 0 0 13 0 481
2021 95 23 139 179 0 0 16 0 452
2022 94 28 136 190 0 0 13 0 461
2023 99 25 126 208 0 0 21 0 479

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at John J Shaughnessy

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 337 n/a n/a n/a
1989 294 n/a n/a n/a
1990 305 n/a n/a n/a
1991 284 n/a n/a n/a
1992 551 n/a n/a n/a
1993 565 n/a 0.0 n/a
1994 581 n/a n/a n/a
1995 533 n/a 0.0 n/a
1996 533 n/a 0.0 n/a
1997 540 n/a 0.0 n/a
1998 566 n/a 0.0 n/a
1999 527 n/a 0.0 67.9
2000 531 n/a 0.0 65.5
2001 495 n/a 0.0 70.9
2002 458 n/a n/a 67.2
2003 458 n/a n/a 67.2
2004 476 36.0 13.2 67.4
2005 465 36.0 12.9 59.1
2006 472 35.5 13.3 63.6
2007 430 34.0 12.6 66.4
2008 431 32.5 13.3 67.5
2009 466 31.0 15.0 72.1
2010 459 32.5 14.1 73.2
2011 470 31.8 14.7 73.4
2012 469 30.9 15.1 77.4
2013 483 32.9 14.6 81
2014 507 33.0 15.3 81.3
2015 486 32.0 15.1 77
2016 493 35.0 14.0 n/a
2017 484 34.9 13.8 n/a
2018 462 33.9 13.5 n/a
2019 493 34.0 14.5 n/a
2020 481 35.0 13.7 n/a
2021 452 38.0 11.8 n/a
2022 461 37.0 12.4 n/a
2023 479 39.9 11.9 n/a

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio John J Shaughnessy

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 337 n/a n/a n/a
1989 294 n/a n/a n/a
1990 305 n/a n/a n/a
1991 284 n/a n/a n/a
1992 551 n/a n/a n/a
1993 565 n/a 0.0 n/a
1994 581 n/a n/a n/a
1995 533 n/a 0.0 n/a
1996 533 n/a 0.0 n/a
1997 540 n/a 0.0 n/a
1998 566 n/a 0.0 n/a
1999 527 n/a 0.0 67.9
2000 531 n/a 0.0 65.5
2001 495 n/a 0.0 70.9
2002 458 n/a n/a 67.2
2003 458 n/a n/a 67.2
2004 476 36.0 13.2 67.4
2005 465 36.0 12.9 59.1
2006 472 35.5 13.3 63.6
2007 430 34.0 12.6 66.4
2008 431 32.5 13.3 67.5
2009 466 31.0 15.0 72.1
2010 459 32.5 14.1 73.2
2011 470 31.8 14.7 73.4
2012 469 30.9 15.1 77.4
2013 483 32.9 14.6 81
2014 507 33.0 15.3 81.3
2015 486 32.0 15.1 77
2016 493 35.0 14.0 n/a
2017 484 34.9 13.8 n/a
2018 462 33.9 13.5 n/a
2019 493 34.0 14.5 n/a
2020 481 35.0 13.7 n/a
2021 452 38.0 11.8 n/a
2022 461 37.0 12.4 n/a
2023 479 39.9 11.9 n/a

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for John J Shaughnessy

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YearExpenditures from Federal FundsExpenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $1,153 (7.9%) $13,409 (92.1%) $14,562
2020 $773 (5.1%) $14,352 (94.9%) $15,124
2021 $1,522 (8.9%) $15,531 (91.1%) $17,053

Data source: Massachusetts Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on John J Shaughnessy

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 607th of 942 Elementary schoolsRanks 800th of 928 Elementary schools
 21.8%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
3rd Grade English Language Arts (John J Shaughnessy)4419.5
 24.5%
   3rd Grade English Language Arts (Lowell)4525.7
 19.3%
   3rd Grade English Language Arts (Massachusetts)5643.9
 12.1%
3rd Grade Mathematics (John J Shaughnessy)4131.2
 9.8%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (Lowell)4028
 12%
   3rd Grade Mathematics (Massachusetts)4941
 8%
4th Grade English Language Arts (John J Shaughnessy)5116.7
 34.3%
   4th Grade English Language Arts (Lowell)4026
 14%
   4th Grade English Language Arts (Massachusetts)5239.7
 12.3%
4th Grade Mathematics (John J Shaughnessy)5020
 30%
   4th Grade Mathematics (Lowell)4132.3
 8.7%
   4th Grade Mathematics (Massachusetts)4945
 4%
All Grades English Language Arts (John J Shaughnessy)4818
 30%
   All Grades English Language Arts (Lowell)3825.6
 12.4%
   All Grades English Language Arts (Massachusetts)5242.3
 9.7%
All Grades Mathematics (John J Shaughnessy)4525.2
 19.9%
   All Grades Mathematics (Lowell)3726.1
 10.9%
   All Grades Mathematics (Massachusetts)4940.6
 8.4%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students493479
 2.8%
African American3325
 24.2%
American Indian20
 100%
Asian136126
 7.4%
Hispanic172208
 20.9%
Pacific Islander00
White13799
 27.7%
Two or More Races1321
 61.5%


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John J Shaughnessy ranks in the bottom 15.4% of Massachusetts elementary schools.

In the 2022-23 school year, 479 students attended John J Shaughnessy.

Students at John J Shaughnessy are 43% Hispanic, 26% Asian, 21% White, 5% African American, 4% Two or more races.


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