Lincoln Elementary

Lincoln Elementary, a roomy elementary-level community in Manteca, California, run under Manteca Unified, enrolls 736 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 58% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Within Manteca Unified, which oversees 30 schools and 25,347 students, Lincoln Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Lincoln Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%; the rest comes out to 13% Asian, 9% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above San Joaquin County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lincoln Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 33.4%; actual is 13.6%, a gap of -19.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Lincoln Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Manteca High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 22%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 736 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 2% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 in 2025.

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