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Enrollment
580
Elementary
DISTRICT 461 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OAK PARK ESD 97·NCES 172925003060
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
1111 S Grove Ave, Oak Park, IL 60304 · (708) 524-3110 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL580 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 78% of Illinois public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
103 students
DISTRICT 18% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 19 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 69% · 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
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
71.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +19.2pp since 2023
Math
62.3%
IL avg 37.9% . +15.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 19 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.1% | 62.3% |
| 2023-24 | 51.9% | 47.0% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. 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
65.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.3%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Illinois 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 Illinois'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 Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School's state test result (65.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary School this school | 580 | 17.8% | 65.5% |
| Longfellow Elementary School Oak Park | 524 | 19.1% | 64.4% |
| Irving Elementary School Oak Park | 509 | 21.2% | 67.8% |
| Walnut Trails Elementary School Shorewood | 475 | 20.2% | 62.9% |
| J B Nelson Elementary School Batavia | 482 | 21.0% | 55.7% |
| Prairie Point Elementary School Oswego | 455 | 17.1% | 57.3% |
Matched among Illinois elementary 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 Abraham Lincoln Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.5% | #195 of 1,925 | #68 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #362 of 2,077 ▲ 6 | #123 of 829 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.1% | #319 of 2,077 ▲ 105 | #120 of 829 ▲ 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 580 | #310 of 2,419 | #170 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #680 of 2,035 | #320 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #322 of 2,042 | #134 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.8% | #1,998 of 2,132 | #756 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.6% | #635 of 1,461 | #347 of 661 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
580
-56 (-9%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 666
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 | 580 | 46.9 | 12.4:1 | 18% (103) |
| 2023-24 | 576 | 49.6 | 11.6:1 | 17% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 589 | 50.1 | 11.8:1 | 15% (91) |
| 2020-21 | 636 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 687 | 44.2 | 15.6:1 | 14% (98) |
| 2015-16 | 637 | 36 | 17.7:1 | 15% (98) |
| 2010-11 | 577 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 15% (89) |
| 2000-01 | 638 | 39 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 666 | 33 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Abraham Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (687 to 580); teachers up 6% (44.2 to 46.9).
About Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school based in Oak Park, Illinois. It serves 580 students in kindergarten through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Illinois average about 381 students.
Oak Park ESD 97 oversees Abraham Lincoln Elementary School and 9 other schools, with 5,560 students in total.
At 52%, White students outnumber all other groups at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School combined. The school is also 18% Hispanic, 13% Black, 13% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 44%. Abraham Lincoln Elementary School has a diversity index of 66%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The teaching staff at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is 46.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.4:1. That ratio is under the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 18%. That rate is below the 66% average among public schools in Cook County.
The allk12 Grade for Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is A-. Compared with Illinois public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 78% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The model predicts 61.3% for a school in Illinois with Abraham Lincoln Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Abraham Lincoln Elementary School posts 65.5%.
Among Cook County residents, median household income is about $83,498, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 1,406 public schools in Cook County, with a combined enrollment of about 697,934.
Nearest public school: Prairie Oak School, about 0.5 miles away. The five-mile area around Abraham Lincoln Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Abraham Lincoln Elementary School ranks 2nd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 65.5% against a local average of 47.8%.
The federal government classifies Abraham Lincoln Elementary School's location as Suburb: Large.
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School had 636 students in 2020-21 and 580 in 2024-25, a 9% decrease.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Oak Park ESD 97
- Gwendolyn Brooks Middle SchoolMiddle · 947 students
- Percy Julian Middle SchoolMiddle · 927 students
- Longfellow Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
- Oliver W Holmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
- Horace Mann Elementary SchoolElementary · 419 students
Other schools in Oak Park
- Oak Park & River Forest High SchoolHigh · 3,307 students
- Gwendolyn Brooks Middle SchoolMiddle · 947 students
- Percy Julian Middle SchoolMiddle · 927 students
- Longfellow Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
- Oliver W Holmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 513 students
- Irving Elementary SchoolElementary · 509 students
Other Abraham Lincoln Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 11 states are named Abraham Lincoln Elementary. Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 22.
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolGlen Ellyn, IL · 559 students
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolBelleville, IL · 542 students
- Abraham Lincoln ElementaryCupertino, CA · 662 students
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolIndianapolis, IN · 633 students
- Abraham Lincoln ElementaryPalm Desert, CA · 607 students
Nearby schools
- Prairie Oak School0.5 mi · 698
- Irving Elementary School0.6 mi · 509
- Betsy Ross Elementary School0.7 mi · 138
- Jefferson Elementary School0.8 mi · 453
- Karel Havlicek Elementary School0.8 mi · 490
- Field Stevenson Elementary School0.9 mi · 214
Frequently asked questions
About Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow large is Abraham Lincoln Elementary School?
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 580 students in grades KG-05.
Is Abraham Lincoln Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School?
Approximately 12.4:1 students per teacher at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School?
Student demographics at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School are roughly 52% White, 18% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in?
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is part of Oak Park ESD 97.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.