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Enrollment
621
Middle
DISTRICT 679 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OCEANSIDE UNIFIED·NCES 062825004364
Lincoln Middle
2000 California St., Oceanside, CA 92054 · (760) 901-8900 · San Diego County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL621 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of California public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.5:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
449 students
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 191 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 219 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 211 | 34% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
33.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.8pp since 2014
Math
25.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +1.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 8.3% | 25.5% | 26.3% | 39.9% |
| Math | 13.5% | 12.1% | 27.9% | 46.5% |
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 | 33.8% | 25.6% |
| 2023-24 | 35.7% | 22.6% |
| 2022-23 | 34.2% | 20.4% |
| 2021-22 | 35.7% | 23.1% |
| 2018-19 | 44.2% | 35.1% |
| 2017-18 | 40.9% | 32.8% |
| 2016-17 | 42.1% | 35.5% |
| 2015-16 | 38.0% | 27.0% |
| 2014-15 | 26.0% | 24.0% |
% 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
29.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Middle
Lincoln Middle's state test result (29.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Middle this school | 621 | 72.3% | 29.4% |
| John Knight Middle Dixon | 634 | 69.4% | 25.5% |
| La Loma Junior High Modesto | 705 | 76.3% | 29.0% |
| Mesa View Middle Calimesa | 717 | 72.0% | 31.0% |
| Ronald W. Reagan Elementary Kingsburg | 619 | 73.2% | 40.1% |
| Mesa Middle Arroyo Grande | 474 | 73.8% | 34.6% |
Matched among California middle 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 Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Diego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.4% | #758 of 1,224 | #62 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #705 of 1,227 ▲ 21 | #58 of 92 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #889 of 1,227 ▼ 124 | #70 of 92 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.3pp | #820 of 1,214 | #51 of 91 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 621 | #718 of 1,377 | #65 of 104 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.6:1 | #550 of 1,279 | #43 of 100 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.6% | #561 of 1,278 | #61 of 100 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.3% | #698 of 1,329 | #31 of 102 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.5% | #153 of 930 | #13 of 73 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
621
-132 (-18%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 1,301
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
was 24.3:1
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 | 621 | 30.1 | 20.6:1 | 72% (449) |
| 2023-24 | 695 | 32.1 | 21.7:1 | 74% (511) |
| 2022-23 | 699 | 31.1 | 22.5:1 | 70% (491) |
| 2020-21 | 753 | 31 | 24.3:1 | 58% (437) |
| 2017-18 | 857 | 34 | 25.2:1 | 68% (586) |
| 2015-16 | 878 | 38 | 23.1:1 | 70% (615) |
| 2010-11 | 867 | N/A | N/A | 69% (594) |
| 2000-01 | 1,564 | 68 | 23.0:1 | 46% (716) |
| 1990-91 | 1,301 | 56 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (857 to 621); teachers down 11% (34 to 30.1).
About Lincoln Middle
Lincoln Middle is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle school in Oceanside, California. Total enrollment is 621 students, and the grades served are 6 through 8.
Oceanside Unified has 14,866 students in 23 schools, and Lincoln Middle is one of those schools.
At Lincoln Middle, 61% of students are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 28% White and 6% multiracial. Census figures show San Diego County is about 35% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lincoln Middle scores 55%.
Staffing at Lincoln Middle comes to 30.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.6:1. That is in line with the 20.7:1 average for middle schools in California. Lincoln Middle counts 72% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in San Diego County report 54%.
Lincoln Middle earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 28% of California public middle schools.
Lincoln Middle posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 29.4%, compared with a predicted 37.2%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
San Diego County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $106,268 a year, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Lincoln Middle shares San Diego County with 765 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Palmquist Elementary is about 0.1 miles from Lincoln Middle. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 40.7%, higher than Lincoln Middle's 29.4%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell 18% over 4 years, reaching 621 in 2024-25. The ratio was 24.3:1 in 2020-21 and 20.6:1 in 2024-25.
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San Diego County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,288,774
Census ACS
Median income
$106,268
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
766
467,437 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Oceanside Unified
- El Camino HighHigh · 2,463 students
- Oceanside HighHigh · 1,948 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMiddle · 1,098 students
- North Terrace ElementaryElementary · 771 students
- Louise Foussat ElementaryElementary · 755 students
- Ivey Ranch ElementaryElementary · 698 students
Other schools in Oceanside
- El Camino HighHigh · 2,463 students
- Coastal Academy CharterCombined · 2,015 students
- Oceanside HighHigh · 1,948 students
- Mission Vista HighHigh · 1,670 students
- SIATechHigh · 1,174 students
- Madison MiddleMiddle · 1,158 students
Other Lincoln Middle schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Lincoln Middle. Lincoln Middle is the 16th largest of the 33.
- Lincoln MiddleAlameda, CA · 971 students
- Lincoln MiddleSanta Monica, CA · 914 students
- LINCOLN MIDDLERIO RANCHO, NM · 805 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolBerwyn, IL · 793 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMt Prospect, IL · 784 students
Nearby schools
- Palmquist Elementary0.1 mi · 512
- South Oceanside Elementary0.9 mi · 487
- Surfside Academy1.0 mi · 234
- Surfside High (Continuation)1.0 mi · 119
- Mission Elementary1.4 mi · 419
- Oceanside High1.4 mi · 1,948
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln MiddleHow many students attend Lincoln Middle?
Lincoln Middle enrolls approximately 621 students in grades 06-08.
Is Lincoln Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lincoln Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Lincoln Middle?
Approximately 20.6:1 students per teacher at Lincoln Middle.
How diverse is Lincoln Middle?
Lincoln Middle reports a student body of 28% White, 61% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Lincoln Middle in?
Lincoln Middle is part of Oceanside Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.