Lincoln Elementary School

As a low-enrollment primary school in DENVER, Colorado, Lincoln Elementary School educates 310 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C.

Across the 198 schools in School District No. 1 in the county of Denver and State of C (90,471 students total), Lincoln Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Lincoln Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Denver County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, Lincoln Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 63.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Denver County) reports that median household income runs about $94,718, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Denver County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,233 students), Lincoln Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Steele Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.

Lincoln Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 359 students in 2018 compared to 310 in 2025.

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