Lincoln Elementary

Lincoln Elementary operates as a heavily attended K-5 school in Madera, California, part of Madera Unified. Current enrollment sits at 816 students spanning grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 75% bigger than typical.

Lincoln Elementary is one of 28 schools operated by Madera Unified, a district that educates 19,922 students overall.

On demographics, Lincoln Elementary lists that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 9% White, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lincoln Elementary shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at Lincoln Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lincoln Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the broader community, Madera County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,627 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Madera County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,251 students), Lincoln Elementary is one campus in the mix.

John Adams Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 820 students in 2018 to 816 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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