Enrollment
309
Elementary
DISTRICT 534 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TULARE CITY·NCES 063987006614
Lincoln Elementary
909 East Cedar Ave., Tulare, CA 93274 · (559) 685-7350 · Tulare County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL309 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 23% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
285 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 50 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 10% larger than its 6th grade class (50).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
26.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +8.7pp since 2014
Math
16.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +8.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.4% | 20.4% | 21.5% | 51.7% |
| Math | 6.4% | 10.5% | 27.3% | 55.8% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.7% | 16.9% |
| 2023-24 | 29.4% | 21.7% |
| 2022-23 | 24.2% | 16.9% |
| 2021-22 | 29.0% | 12.2% |
| 2020-21 | 24.0% | 7.2% |
| 2018-19 | 31.3% | 16.0% |
| 2017-18 | 21.3% | 13.3% |
| 2016-17 | 15.1% | 10.7% |
| 2015-16 | 13.0% | 9.0% |
| 2014-15 | 18.0% | 8.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lincoln Elementary
Lincoln Elementary's state test result (23.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary this school | 309 | 92.2% | 23.6% |
| Shenandoah Street Elementary Los Angeles | 331 | 93.4% | 31.9% |
| West Randall Elementary Fontana | 304 | 88.8% | 13.2% |
| Huntington Drive Elementary Los Angeles | 282 | 92.9% | 26.4% |
| Jackson Elementary Fresno | 319 | 90.6% | 25.8% |
| Barfield Elementary Pomona | 282 | 93.3% | 26.1% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lincoln Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Tulare County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #4,233 of 5,151 | #85 of 102 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #4,580 of 5,172 ▼ 593 | #92 of 102 ▼ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #4,308 of 5,172 ▼ 460 | #86 of 102 ▼ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.2pp | #2,952 of 5,116 | #83 of 102 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 309 | #4,689 of 5,915 | #93 of 110 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.6:1 | #1,272 of 5,352 | #27 of 100 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.3% | #4,462 of 5,354 | #58 of 100 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.2% | #804 of 5,625 | #24 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.9% | #291 of 1,139 | #4 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
309
+35 (+13%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 312
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
was 19.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 309 | 15 | 20.6:1 | 92% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 229 | 11 | 20.8:1 | 93% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 244 | 12 | 20.3:1 | 93% (228) |
| 2020-21 | 274 | 14 | 19.6:1 | 96% (262) |
| 2017-18 | 262 | 12 | 21.8:1 | 94% (246) |
| 2015-16 | 304 | 13 | 23.4:1 | 96% (291) |
| 2010-11 | 388 | N/A | N/A | 93% (359) |
| 2000-01 | 284 | 16 | 17.8:1 | 94% (267) |
| 1990-91 | 312 | 13 | 24.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (262 to 309); teachers up 25% (12 to 15).
About Lincoln Elementary
Lincoln Elementary is an elementary school in Tulare, California, and it is part of Tulare City. It teaches 309 students in kindergarten through 6. By comparison, elementary schools in California enroll about 465 students on average.
The district, Tulare City, operates 18 schools serving 9,289 students.
Lincoln Elementary is 90% Hispanic by enrollment. Next come 4% White and 4% Black. That compares with about 67% Hispanic among all Tulare County residents. The diversity index for Lincoln Elementary is 19%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Lincoln Elementary comes to 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.6:1. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 1.7 students per teacher. On the income side, 92% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Tulare County is 77%.
On the allk12 Grade, Lincoln Elementary lands at C-, ahead of 23% of California public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Lincoln Elementary is -1.9 points: 23.6% actual, 25.5% predicted.
The school's county is Tulare County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $71,300, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 17%, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. There are 196 public schools in the county, enrolling about 101,494, Lincoln Elementary among them.
Lincoln Elementary's nearest public school is Wilson Elementary (about 0.7 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lincoln Elementary. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Lincoln Elementary ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Lincoln Elementary in the Suburb: Small locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 13% gain, from 274 to 309. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 19.6:1 to 20.6:1.
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Tulare County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
478,693
Census ACS
Median income
$71,300
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
196
101,494 students
Quick facts
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Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary is the 135th largest of the 214.
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- Lincoln ElementaryOakland, CA · 664 students
Nearby schools
- Wilson Elementary0.7 mi · 487
- Tulare Union High0.7 mi · 1,616
- Frank Kohn Elementary0.9 mi · 617
- Cypress Elementary1.0 mi · 562
- Sierra Vista Charter High1.1 mi · 166
- Cherry Avenue Middle1.1 mi · 483
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln ElementaryHow large is Lincoln Elementary?
Lincoln Elementary enrolls approximately 309 students in grades KG-06.
Is Lincoln Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lincoln Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Lincoln Elementary have?
Lincoln Elementary employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.6:1.
How diverse is Lincoln Elementary?
Lincoln Elementary reports a student body of 4% White, 90% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Lincoln Elementary public or private?
Lincoln Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Tulare City.
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