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Enrollment
552
Middle
DISTRICT 571 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1·NCES 080399000536
Lincoln Middle School
1600 LANCER DRIVE, FORT COLLINS, CO 80521 · (970) 488-5700 · Larimer County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL552 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of Colorado public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
368 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 50%
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 | 164 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 199 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 189 | 34% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
41.3%
CO avg 44.9% . +3.4pp since 2023
Math
27.6%
CO avg 36.1% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.3% | 27.6% |
| 2023-24 | 37.9% | 25.8% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. 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
32.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.3%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Colorado 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 Colorado'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 School
Lincoln Middle School's state test result (32.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Middle School this school | 552 | 66.7% | 32.3% |
| Bookcliff Middle School GRAND JUNCTION | 525 | 72.6% | 18.0% |
| North Arvada Middle School ARVADA | 464 | 66.8% | 23.7% |
| Sabin Middle School COLORADO SPRINGS | 540 | 65.9% | 28.1% |
| Vineland Middle School PUEBLO | 362 | 62.7% | 26.8% |
| Brush Middle School BRUSH | 328 | 65.5% | 20.1% |
Matched among Colorado 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 School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In Larimer County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #122 of 241 | #11 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.6% | #114 of 244 no change | #10 of 13 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #128 of 246 ▲ 11 | #10 of 13 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 552 | #100 of 278 | #6 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #38 of 227 | #2 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #53 of 227 | #1 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #67 of 246 | #1 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #161 of 169 | #12 of 12 |
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
552
-27 (-5%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 585
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 552 | 41.4 | 13.3:1 | 67% (368) |
| 2023-24 | 550 | 41.2 | 13.3:1 | 66% (363) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 38.8 | 13.9:1 | 65% (349) |
| 2020-21 | 579 | 42 | 13.8:1 | 56% (325) |
| 2017-18 | 568 | 41.9 | 13.6:1 | 71% (402) |
| 2015-16 | 548 | 37 | 14.8:1 | 73% (399) |
| 2010-11 | 481 | 33 | 14.6:1 | 70% (339) |
| 2000-01 | 663 | 39 | 17.0:1 | 36% (238) |
| 1990-91 | 585 | 35 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (568 to 552); teachers down 1% (41.9 to 41.4).
About Lincoln Middle School
Lincoln Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in FORT COLLINS, Colorado. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 552 students enrolled.
Lincoln Middle School is run by Poudre School District R-1, whose 52 schools enroll 29,381 students.
No group is above 50% at Lincoln Middle School; the largest is Hispanic, at 49%. The rest of enrollment is 41% White and 6% multiracial. Among all residents of Larimer County, the Hispanic share is about 13%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 59%.
Its ratio of 13.3:1 is based on 41.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Middle schools in Colorado have an average ratio of 15.9:1. In all, 67% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Larimer County averages 35%, lower than here.
Lincoln Middle School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 65% of Colorado public middle schools.
The model predicts 26.3% for a school in Colorado with Lincoln Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Lincoln Middle School posts 32.3%.
Census data for Larimer County show the median household earns about $93,765 a year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Larimer County number 94, with about 47,159 students.
Measured in a straight line, Putnam Elementary School is about 0.6 miles from Lincoln Middle School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Lincoln Middle School comes in 5th of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Lincoln Middle School the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 5%.
People who know Lincoln Middle School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Larimer County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
367,368
Census ACS
Median income
$93,765
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
47,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Poudre School District R-1
- Rocky Mountain High SchoolHigh · 2,044 students
- Fossil Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Fort Collins High SchoolHigh · 1,836 students
- Liberty Common Charter SchoolCombined · 1,516 students
- Timnath Middle-High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
- Poudre High SchoolHigh · 1,409 students
Other schools in FORT COLLINS
- Rocky Mountain High SchoolHigh · 2,044 students
- Fossil Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Fort Collins High SchoolHigh · 1,836 students
- Liberty Common Charter SchoolCombined · 1,516 students
- Poudre High SchoolHigh · 1,409 students
- Colorado Early Colleges Fort CollinsHigh · 971 students
Other Lincoln Middle schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Lincoln Middle. Lincoln Middle School is the 18th 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
- Putnam Elementary School0.6 mi · 258
- Irish Elementary School0.9 mi · 365
- Poudre Community Academy1.2 mi · 212
- Poudre High School1.2 mi · 1,409
- Dunn Elementary School1.5 mi · 392
- Polaris Expeditionary Learning School1.5 mi · 406
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Middle SchoolHow many students attend Lincoln Middle School?
Lincoln Middle School enrolls approximately 552 students in grades 06-08.
Is Lincoln Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lincoln Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Lincoln Middle School have?
Lincoln Middle School employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Lincoln Middle School?
Student demographics at Lincoln Middle School are roughly 41% White, 49% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Lincoln Middle School in?
Lincoln Middle School is part of Poudre School District R-1.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.