Abraham Lincoln Elementary

Abraham Lincoln Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Santa Ana, California, operated by Santa Ana Unified. Current enrollment sits at 468 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 51 schools in Santa Ana Unified (35,993 students total), Abraham Lincoln Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Abraham Lincoln Elementary shows that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 92% of students at Abraham Lincoln Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Abraham Lincoln Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.8%; this one delivers 17.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $116,289, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Abraham Lincoln Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

The closest other public school is Monte Vista Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Abraham Lincoln Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Abraham Lincoln Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 24.2%.

Abraham Lincoln Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 45%: 855 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 28.5:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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