Lincoln Elementary

Lincoln Elementary is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Ontario, California, part of Ontario-Montclair, with 530 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Lincoln Elementary is one of 33 schools operated by Ontario-Montclair, a district that educates 17,640 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln Elementary reports that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Black, 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lincoln Elementary lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Lincoln Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of +8.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Lincoln Elementary is one of 583 public schools in San Bernardino County (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students).

The closest other public school is Central Language Academy, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lincoln Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Lincoln Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 551 (now 530). Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 96% to 89%.

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