Lincoln Elementary

Lincoln Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Pomona, California, overseen by Pomona Unified. Current enrollment sits at 345 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 26% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Pomona Unified, which oversees 37 schools and 20,422 students, Lincoln Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Lincoln Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). The remainder comes out to 6% Black, 5% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Lincoln Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lincoln Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 17.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Lincoln Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Roosevelt Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincoln Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 25.4%.

Lincoln Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Lincoln Elementary's enrollment has decreased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 345). Hispanic enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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