Lincoln Elementary

Set in Escondido, California, Lincoln Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, run under Escondido Union. It hosts 547 students across grades K through 5.

Escondido Union comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 13,920 students; Lincoln Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Lincoln Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest reads as 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.7%; this one delivers 25.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Lincoln Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Farr Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 552 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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