Abraham Lincoln Elem School

As a moderately sized elementary campus in Belleville, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln Elem School instructs 542 students from grades K through 6, operated by Belleville SD 118. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Belleville SD 118 runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 3,275 students. Abraham Lincoln Elem School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Abraham Lincoln Elem School records that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 22% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Clair County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Abraham Lincoln Elem School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Clair County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Abraham Lincoln Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.5%, the actual is 26.5%, a residual of +3.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for St. Clair County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,854 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Abraham Lincoln Elem School is one of 96 public schools in St. Clair County (combined enrollment of about 40,879 students).

West Jr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Abraham Lincoln Elem School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Abraham Lincoln Elem School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 576 students in 2018 compared to 542 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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