Lawfield, Hamilton

Renting Near Lawfield Elementary School

Lawfield Elementary School is a Public elementary school teaching JK to 8 in Lawfield, Hamilton, run by the Hamilton-Wentworth DSB. The Ministry of Education reports 685 students enrolled. Everything below is public data, with the source and year beside it.

Public elementary schoolGrades JK-8EnglishHamilton-Wentworth DSB

At a glance

685

Students enrolled

Ministry figure, 2024–2025

JK-8

Grades

Elementary

Licensed child care within 2 km

Provincial licence register

4.4 km

Nearest GO station

Hamilton GO Centre, straight line

At 685 students it is larger than about 90% of Hamilton's elementary schools, whose median is 435. That is a Ministry headcount for one school year, not a class size.

School facts

Published by the Ontario Ministry of Education. Fields the Ministry does not publish for this school are shown as such rather than filled in.

Official name: Lawfield Elementary School
School board: Hamilton-Wentworth DSB (opens Hamilton-Wentworth DSB in a new tab)
Type: Public elementary school
Grade range: JK-8
Language of instruction: English
Address: 45 Berko Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario, L8V2R3
Phone: 905-387-0062
Email: lawfield@hwdsb.on.ca
School website: The address the Ministry publishes for this school no longer resolves. Try the board’s site above.
Ministry school number (BSID): 094608
Date opened: 02/11/2007

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–2025) and the Publicly Funded Schools contact list (August 2026). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Data last refreshed September 4, 2026.

EQAO results, 2024–2025

The percentage of students who met the provincial standard in each assessment this school reported, beside the same figure for Ontario. These are results for one school year — not a score, a rank or a prediction.

Assessment	This school	Ontario	3-year change
Grade 3 Reading	61%	74%	-2 pts
Grade 3 Writing	40%	65%	-8 pts
Grade 3 Mathematics	34%	64%	+19 pts
Grade 6 Reading	86%	86%	+17 pts
Grade 6 Writing	86%	85%	+22 pts
Grade 6 Mathematics	38%	51%	+14 pts

Grade 3 · Reading

61%met the standard

Ontario: 74%

Grade 3 · Writing

40%met the standard

Ontario: 65%

Grade 3 · Mathematics

34%met the standard

Ontario: 64%

Grade 6 · Reading

86%met the standard

Ontario: 86%

Beside comparable schools

The province mixes every board, setting and language system together. These medians cover schools sitting the same assessment in the same year, at the same level, in the same language system, so they compare like with like. The number of schools in each cohort is in brackets.

Assessment	This school	Hamilton-Wentworth DSB median	Hamilton median
Grade 3 Reading	61%	68% (75)	74% (124)
Grade 3 Writing	40%	62% (75)	64.5% (124)
Grade 3 Mathematics	34%	55% (75)	62% (124)
Grade 6 Reading	86%	80.5% (66)	85% (115)
Grade 6 Writing	86%	80.5% (66)	85% (115)
Grade 6 Mathematics	38%	39% (66)	45% (115)

Each figure is a median, not an average, and each cohort counts only the schools that published a result for that exact assessment in 2024–2025. Cohorts of fewer than 10 schools are not shown, because a median over a handful of schools moves too much to mean anything.

How to read this

EQAO assessed 6 measures at this school — reading, writing and mathematics, sat in Grades 3 and 6. Each is one cohort in one year. Results are suppressed wherever a cohort is too small to report. This site publishes no ranking or composite score, and a position above or below a median is not a measure of how good a school is: EQAO reports the share of students meeting a standard in one year, and that share tracks the circumstances of the families a school draws from as much as anything the school does.

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–2025), which publishes the Education Quality and Accountability Office’s per-school results. Provincial figures from EQAO’s release of 3 December 2025. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Student population indicators

The Ministry publishes a small set of indicators alongside each school's profile. They describe the student body, not the neighbourhood, and are rounded by the Ministry.

Students whose first language is not English35%
Students new to Canada from a non-English-speaking country7%
Students receiving special education services10%
Students identified as gifted0%
School-aged children living in low-income households10%
Students whose parents have no degree, diploma or certificate6%

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, School Information and Student Demographics (2024–2025). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

The neighbourhood around it

Lawfield Elementary School sits inside Lawfield, using the City of Hamilton's own boundary for that area.

Neighbourhood

Lawfield

3,575 residents (2021)
29.3 % rent
1 schools
2 parks

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Licensed child care nearby

17 licensed facilities within 2 km, closest first. A licence is not a vacancy — ask each operator about waiting lists.

Umbrella Family - Lawfield
0.1 km
Child Care Centre · English
45 Berko Avenue, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day) · Before school · After school
Ymca Sacc - Richard Beasley
0.8 km
Child Care Centre · English
80 Currie Street, Hamilton
Half day(Less than 6 hours in a day) · Before school · After school
Our Lady Of Lourdes Before And After School Program
1 km
Child Care Centre · English
420 Mohawk Road, Hamilton
Before school · After school
St. Teresa Of Calcutta Before And After School Program
1.1 km
Child Care Centre · English
1 Rexford Drive, Hamilton
Before school · After school
Today'S Family- Franklin Road
1.1 km
Child Care Centre · English
500 Franklin Road, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Before school · After school
Umbrella Family - Lincoln Alexander
1.2 km
Child Care Centre · English
50 Ravenbury Drive, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day) · Before school · After school
Mountain Nursery School
1.3 km
Child Care Centre · English
1279 Upper Gage Avenue, Hamilton
Full Day(6 hours or more in a day)
Blessed Sacrament Before And After School Program
1.4 km
Child Care Centre · English
315 East 37Th Street, Hamilton
Before school · After school

All 17 licensed facilities within 2 km

Today'S Family-C.B. Stirling — 340 Queen Victoria Drive1.5 km
Lisgar Before And After School Program — 110 Anson Avenue1.6 km
Today'S Family - St. Anthony Daniel — 75 Anson Avenue1.7 km
St. Kateri Tekakwitha Before And After School Program — 22 Queensbury Drive1.8 km
St. Margaret Mary Before And After School Program — 25 Brentwood Drive1.8 km
Today'S Family - Huntington Park — 80 Kingslea Drive1.8 km
Mountain Ymca Child Care Centre — 626 Upper Wentworth Street1.9 km
Ymca Sacc - Pauline Johnson — 25 Hummingbird Lane1.9 km
Montessori On The Mountain Inc. — 910 Queensdale Avenue2 km

Source: Ontario Ministry of Education, Licensed child care facilities in Ontario (31 July 2026 snapshot). Locations matched to the City of Hamilton’s open address register. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.

Getting there

Hamilton is served by the HSR bus network, with the most frequent corridors running east–west across the lower city. Two GO stations sit in the city — Hamilton GO Centre downtown and West Harbour GO on the Lakeshore West line — and Aldershot GO just over the Burlington line is a common commuter station too. The escarpment limits north–south routes, so check the actual trip rather than the map distance.

Nearest GO station: Hamilton GO Centre — about 4.4 km in a straight line
Local transit: HSR (Hamilton Street Railway)
Transit stops in Lawfield: 12 HSR (Hamilton Street Railway) stops inside the boundary

The 4.4 km to Hamilton GO Centre is a straight line from this school's Ministry-published coordinates — not a walking or driving time. Check the real trip at the times you travel.

Registering here

Renting near Lawfield Elementary School does not assign a child to it: the attendance area belongs to Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, it changes, and placement depends on programme, grade and capacity. This school teaches JK-8, so confirm the grade you need is offered at the address you are considering. Before- and after-school care is run separately from the school day — the licensed facilities listed above are the operators to contact directly.

HWDSB — The English public board, and the largest school operator in Hamilton. (opens Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board in a new tab)

What to have ready, and how registration works in Hamilton: renting in Hamilton with children.

Other schools nearby

Straight-line distance from this school. Useful when you are weighing several addresses at once.

Common questions

Which board runs Lawfield Elementary School?

Lawfield Elementary School is Public elementary school operated by Hamilton-Wentworth DSB, teaching JK to 8. Every detail on this page comes from the Ontario Ministry of Education's published school information for 2024–2025.

Does renting near Lawfield Elementary School guarantee a place at the school?

No. Attendance areas are set by Hamilton-Wentworth DSB and can change, and placement also depends on programme, grade and capacity. Confirm the current attendance area for a specific address with the board before you sign a lease — this site does not publish attendance boundaries.

How big is Lawfield Elementary School?

The Ministry reports 685 students for the 2024–2025 school year. Enrolment is published once a year, so it describes that year rather than today's register.

What do the EQAO results for Lawfield Elementary School show?

EQAO publishes the percentage of students who met the provincial standard in each assessment. In 2024–2025, 61% met the standard in Grade 3 reading here, against 74% across Ontario. This page shows every assessment the school published results for. They are one year's snapshot, not a ranking.

Which neighbourhood is Lawfield Elementary School in?

The school sits inside Lawfield, where 29.3% of households rented at the 2021 Census. The neighbourhood page covers schools, licensed child care, parks and transit inside the municipality's own boundary for that area.

Is there licensed child care near Lawfield Elementary School?

17 licensed child care facilities sit within 2 km of the school in the Ontario Ministry of Education's licensed child care register (31 July 2026 snapshot). A licence is not a vacancy — contact a centre directly about waiting lists.

Keep researching

Where this page’s data comes from

School information and student demographics, 2024–2025 (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab) — Ontario Ministry of Education. 2024–2025 school year. Updated annual (the ministry lists the dataset as updated monthly; a new school year is added once a year). Retrieved September 4, 2026. Open Government Licence – Ontario (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
Ontario public school contact information, August 2026 (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab) — Ontario Ministry of Education. August 2026. Updated monthly. Retrieved September 4, 2026. Open Government Licence – Ontario (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
Licensed child care facilities in Ontario, July 2026 (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab) — Ontario Ministry of Education. 31 July 2026 snapshot. Updated monthly. Retrieved September 4, 2026. Open Government Licence – Ontario (opens Ontario Ministry of Education in a new tab)Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario.
City of Hamilton Open Data — Neighbourhoods (planning units), Parks, HSR Bus Stops, Libraries, Recreation and Community Centres, Addresses (opens City of Hamilton in a new tab) — City of Hamilton. Layers as published (edit dates recorded per layer in the raw manifest). Updated continuous; refetched on each data build. City of Hamilton Open Data Licence (opens City of Hamilton in a new tab)Contains public sector Data made available under the City of Hamilton's Open Data Licence

Full method notes, refresh cadence and the list of data this site deliberately does not publish are on the data page.