Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School

Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in Freeport, Illinois, one of the schools within Freeport SD 145, serveing 325 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Freeport SD 145 comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,703 students; Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 37% Black, 14% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Stephenson County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Stephenson County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 20.5%.

In the surrounding community, Stephenson County reports that median household income runs about $64,043, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Stephenson County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,092 students), Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Carl Sandburg Middle Sch, roughly 0.8 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 51% since 2018, when it stood at 215 (now 325). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 52% to 42%.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.