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Abraham Lincoln Senior High
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 25 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Abraham Lincoln Senior High
Set in Los Angeles, California, Abraham Lincoln Senior High is a mid-tier 9-12 campus, run under Los Angeles Unified. It caters to 913 students across grades 9 through 12.
Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Abraham Lincoln Senior High is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Abraham Lincoln Senior High lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%; the rest is composed of 19% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Abraham Lincoln Senior High is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 26.3%; this one delivers 56.7%, a residual of +30.5 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Abraham Lincoln Senior High is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).
The closest other public school is Gates Street Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Abraham Lincoln Senior High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.7%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Abraham Lincoln Senior High has fell 18%, going from 1,119 students in 2018 to 913 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Abraham Lincoln Senior High community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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