Lincoln Elem School

Lincoln Elem School operates as a reasonably sized primary school in Blue Island, Illinois, overseen by Cook County SD 130. Current enrollment sits at 342 students spanning grades K through 3.

Across the 11 schools in Cook County SD 130 (2,950 students total), Lincoln Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Lincoln Elem School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 80%; the rest is composed of 14% Black, 5% White. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lincoln Elem School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 23.6%; this one delivers 42.4%, a residual of +18.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cook County indicate median household income runs about $83,498, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Lincoln Elem School is one.

Whittier Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Elem School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincoln Elem School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Lincoln Elem School's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 342). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 74% to 80%.

On the community side, the feed for Lincoln Elem School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.