Abraham Lincoln Jr. High

Abraham Lincoln Jr. High is a cozy middle-grades school in Bakersfield, California, one of the schools within Bakersfield City. The school enrolls 527 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 20% leaner than the state mean of about 659.

Bakersfield City runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 28,365 students. Abraham Lincoln Jr. High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Abraham Lincoln Jr. High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). The remainder reads as 9% Black, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

In terms of school funding signals, Abraham Lincoln Jr. High shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Kern County's rate of about 76%.

With demographic context factored in, Abraham Lincoln Jr. High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.3%; this one delivers 8.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate median household income runs about $70,210, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kern County runs 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), of which Abraham Lincoln Jr. High is one.

The closest other public school is Bessie E. Owens Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Abraham Lincoln Jr. High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 17.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Abraham Lincoln Jr. High's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 634 (now 527). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 80% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.