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LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Florida 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 Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is an elementary campus of modestly sized scale in PLANT CITY, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH, educateing 510 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 32%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 28% Hispanic, 26% White, 9% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.8%; this one delivers 60.0%.
Around the school, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household income runs about $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one.
MARSHALL MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 42.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL has ticked up 13%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 510 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.
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