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What's the most underrated thing about LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
401
Middle
DISTRICT 365 · STATE 464
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINCOLN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 050894001363
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL
201 EAST SCHOOL STREET, LINCOLN, AR 72744 · (479) 824-7400 · Washington County
GRADES 04–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL401 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of Arkansas public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Arkansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
300 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 6 | 80 | 20% |
| Grade 7 | 84 | 21% |
| Grade 8 | 89 | 22% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 61% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL→LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within LINCOLN SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ATLAS 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3+4)English Language Arts
30.9%
AR avg 34.9% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
29.9%
AR avg 38.9% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 35 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
ATLAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.9% | 29.9% |
| 2023-24 | 31.9% | 31.4% |
% Proficient (Level 3+4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: ATLAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.0%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (33.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 401 | 74.8% | 33.7% |
| WALDRON MIDDLE SCHOOL WALDRON | 409 | 70.9% | 26.1% |
| HUNTSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL HUNTSVILLE | 470 | 68.3% | 31.7% |
| MANSFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL MANSFIELD | 259 | 68.7% | 37.3% |
| POCAHONTAS UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POCAHONTAS | 402 | 74.4% | 28.0% |
| BERRYVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL BERRYVILLE | 421 | 66.5% | 39.2% |
Matched among Arkansas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Arkansas | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #126 of 207 | #13 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #141 of 208 ▼ 15 | #15 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #126 of 208 ▼ 9 | #12 of 17 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 401 | #124 of 217 | #13 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #147 of 188 | #11 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.5% | #97 of 188 | #8 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.8% | #71 of 210 | #5 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.7% | #42 of 61 | #4 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
401
+26 (+7%) vs 2020
+72% since 1990-91, when it was 233
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 15.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 401 | 24.8 | 16.1:1 | 75% (300) |
| 2023-24 | 410 | 27.7 | 14.8:1 | 76% (312) |
| 2022-23 | 400 | 28.2 | 14.2:1 | 73% (290) |
| 2020-21 | 375 | 25 | 15.0:1 | 71% (267) |
| 2017-18 | 383 | 25.5 | 15.0:1 | 44% (168) |
| 2015-16 | 369 | 25 | 14.8:1 | 72% (264) |
| 2010-11 | 314 | 22 | 14.3:1 | 72% (227) |
| 2000-01 | 322 | 23 | 14.0:1 | 54% (173) |
| 1990-91 | 233 | 12 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle-grades school found in LINCOLN, Arkansas. The school counts 401 students across grades 4 through 8.
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL belongs to LINCOLN SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 3 schools and 1,095 students.
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 72% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 4% Native American. In Washington County overall, about 63% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 46% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 16.1:1 comes from the school's 24.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.9:1 average for middle schools in Arkansas. The school's lunch program data list 75% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 58% for public schools in Washington County.
allk12 grades LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL a C+. The grade compares the school only with Arkansas public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 33.7%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 32.0%.
Census estimates describe Washington County this way: the median household income is $70,639, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Besides LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL, Washington County has 75 other public schools.
LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are 2 other public schools. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is Rural: Distant, which covers schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment at LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL grew 7% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 375 to 401 students. Federal data show the ratio rising from 15.0:1 to 16.1:1.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
256,765
Census ACS
Median income
$70,639
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
42,451 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LINCOLN SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 338 students
Other schools in LINCOLN
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 338 students
Other Lincoln Middle schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Lincoln Middle. LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 27th largest of the 33.
- Lincoln MiddleAlameda, CA · 971 students
- Lincoln MiddleSanta Monica, CA · 914 students
- LINCOLN MIDDLERIO RANCHO, NM · 805 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolBerwyn, IL · 793 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMt Prospect, IL · 784 students
Nearby schools
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 356
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 338
- PRAIRIE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL5.5 mi · 550
- PRAIRIE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.8 mi · 763
- PRAIRIE GROVE HIGH SCHOOL5.8 mi · 620
- PRAIRIE GROVE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL6.2 mi · 326
Frequently asked questions
About LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 401 students in grades 04-08.
What grades does LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 04-08.
How many teachers does LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
What is the student diversity at LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 72% White, 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of LINCOLN SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.