Lowell Elementary

2000 Rice Lake Road, Duluth, MN 55811

Schools

About Lowell Elementary

Lowell Elementary sits at 2000 Rice Lake Road and is one of the ten attendance-area elementaries in Duluth Public Schools (ISD 709). The building houses two distinct programs, which is the thing worth understanding before quoting an enrollment figure for it.

The neighborhood program enrolls about 312 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Alongside it, in the same building, the district runs Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion, which enrolls about 329 (NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-2025, accessed 2026-08-13). NCES treats them as two separate schools with separate identifiers, so a citation of "Lowell Elementary" can mean 312, 329, or about 641 depending on which record it came from. This guide quotes 312 for the neighborhood program and names the immersion program separately.

The immersion program is a genuine school-choice factor rather than a curricular footnote. It enrolls district-wide by choice rather than by attendance area, it is larger than the neighborhood program it shares a building with, and it is the district's only language immersion option. Families relocating to Duluth who want immersion should know it exists and that it is not tied to where they buy.

Attendance boundaries change between years. This record does not assert which neighborhoods Lowell serves, because the central-corridor boundary lines are among the ones the district's published maps do not resolve cleanly. Confirm the assignment for a specific address with ISD 709 before relying on it.

Attendance boundaries and programs change. Confirm with the district before you rely on this.
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Last reviewed 2026-08-13 by Guide editorial.