Enrollment
325
Elementary
DISTRICT 319 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREEPORT SD 145·NCES 171590001899
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School
1700 W Laurel St, Freeport, IL 61032 · (815) 232-0370 · Stephenson County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL325 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
12.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
213 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 48 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 2 | 1% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School→Carl Sandburg Middle School→Freeport Middle School→Freeport High School
Based on grade levels within Freeport SD 145. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
24.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
20.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +10.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.3% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 17.3% | 10.2% |
% 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
20.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School's state test result (20.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School this school | 325 | 65.5% | 20.5% |
| High Mount Elementary School Swansea | 325 | 68.3% | 29.2% |
| Northmoor Primary School Peoria | 365 | 63.0% | 44.9% |
| Oakdale Elementary School Normal | 386 | 65.0% | 27.5% |
| Signal Hill Elementary School Belleville | 291 | 62.9% | 37.1% |
| Malta Elementary School Malta | 293 | 65.9% | 21.7% |
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 Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Stephenson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.5% | #1,592 of 1,925 | #8 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #1,580 of 2,077 ▲ 26 | #8 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.3% | #1,829 of 2,077 ▼ 163 | #8 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 325 | #1,391 of 2,419 | #5 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #779 of 2,035 | #5 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.9% | #269 of 2,042 | #4 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.5% | #857 of 2,132 | #2 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +51.2% | #29 of 615 | N/A |
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
325
+83 (+34%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 432
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 | 325 | 25.7 | 12.7:1 | 66% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 320 | 25 | 12.8:1 | 67% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 286 | 22 | 13.0:1 | 57% (164) |
| 2020-21 | 242 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 215 | 17 | 12.7:1 | 66% (142) |
| 2015-16 | 236 | 17 | 13.9:1 | 70% (166) |
| 2010-11 | 227 | 17 | 13.3:1 | 65% (148) |
| 2000-01 | 285 | 18 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 432 | 19 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 51% (215 to 325); teachers up 51% (17 to 25.7).
About Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is an elementary school in Freeport, Illinois, and it is part of Freeport SD 145. It educates 325 students in pre-K through 4.
Freeport SD 145 includes 8 schools. Together they enroll 3,703 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School. The largest is White students, at 42%. Smaller groups are 37% Black, 14% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Stephenson County is roughly 80% White. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The teaching staff at Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is 25.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 12.7:1. This ratio sits 1.3 below the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 66%. That rate is above the 50% average among public schools in Stephenson County.
Measured against Illinois public elementary schools, Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is 13.2 points below its prediction. Actual: 20.5%. Predicted: 33.7%.
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is located in Stephenson County, where the median household income is $64,043, roughly 21% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in the county.
Carl Sandburg Middle School is the closest public school, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number 7. Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Distant, or in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The school enrolled 325 students in 2024-25, 83 more than the 242 it had in 2020-21.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Stephenson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
43,768
Census ACS
Median income
$64,043
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
6,092 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Freeport SD 145
- Freeport High SchoolHigh · 1,165 students
- Freeport Middle SchoolMiddle · 515 students
- Carl Sandburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 430 students
- Blackhawk Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Jones-Farrar Intl BaccalaureateElementary · 350 students
- Empire Elementary SchoolElementary · 295 students
Other schools in Freeport
- Freeport High SchoolHigh · 1,165 students
- Freeport Middle SchoolMiddle · 515 students
- Carl Sandburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 430 students
- Blackhawk Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
- Jones-Farrar Intl BaccalaureateElementary · 350 students
- Empire Elementary SchoolElementary · 295 students
Other Lincoln-Douglas Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Lincoln-Douglas Elementary. Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Lincoln-Douglas Elementary SchoolQuincy, IL · 588 students
Nearby schools
- Carl Sandburg Middle School0.8 mi · 430
- Empire Elementary School1.1 mi · 295
- Jones-Farrar Intl Baccalaureate1.4 mi · 350
- Freeport High School1.6 mi · 1,165
- Freeport Middle School1.7 mi · 515
- Blackhawk Elementary School1.9 mi · 361
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln-Douglas Elementary SchoolHow large is Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School?
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School enrolls approximately 325 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School serve?
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School.
How diverse is Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School?
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School reports a student body of 42% White, 6% Hispanic, 37% Black, 2% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School?
Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School is overseen by Freeport SD 145 in Stephenson County.
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