Lincoln Crossing Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Lincoln, California, Lincoln Crossing Elementary instructs 484 students from grades K through 5, part of Western Placer Unified.

Within Western Placer Unified, which oversees 14 schools and 8,030 students, Lincoln Crossing Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln Crossing Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Placer County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Lincoln Crossing Elementary shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Placer County's rate of about 33%.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln Crossing Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 65.6%; Lincoln Crossing Elementary posts 50.4%, -15.2 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Placer County reports that median household earnings sit near $115,998, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Placer County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), Lincoln Crossing Elementary is one campus in the mix.

First Street Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Crossing Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lincoln Crossing Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 649 (now 484). Over the same period, the White share fell from 63% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 25.5:1 today.

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