LINCOLN ACADEMY

LINCOLN ACADEMY, a micro-enrollment middle school in FORREST CITY, Arkansas, one of the schools within FORREST CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 132 students, covering grade 6. That puts it 72% below the typical public school in Arkansas, which averages around 464 students.

Within FORREST CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,078 students, LINCOLN ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LINCOLN ACADEMY shows that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% White, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 55% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LINCOLN ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.3%; this one delivers 15.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Francis County indicate median household income runs about $42,574, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 24% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Francis County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,904 students), LINCOLN ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

FORREST CITY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around LINCOLN ACADEMY. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LINCOLN ACADEMY ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 25.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 130 students in 2018 compared to 132 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 86% to 92% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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