Lincoln Elementary

Lincoln Elementary, a close-knit elementary campus in Richmond, California, overseen by West Contra Costa Unified, serves 339 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lincoln Elementary sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

West Contra Costa Unified runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 25,133 students. Lincoln Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Lincoln Elementary lists that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Lincoln Elementary records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at Lincoln Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lincoln Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 28.5%; actual is 5.7%, a gap of -22.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Contra Costa County shows median household earnings sit near $127,229, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Lincoln Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Greenwood Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lincoln Elementary at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 13.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 21%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 339 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 22% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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