LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL
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Test scores
ATLAS 2023-24 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Arkansas average is about 34 of 100.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is a secondary school of tight-knit scale in LINCOLN, Arkansas, run under LINCOLN SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 338 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 34% smaller than the state mean of about 510.
LINCOLN SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,095 students; LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
In terms of who attends, LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL shows that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.9:1. The state averages around 8.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.7%; this one delivers 23.1%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $70,639, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,451 students), of which LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 36.9%.
The school occupies an outlying site. LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 27%: 464 students in 2018 compared to 338 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 5.9:1 today.
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