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Enrollment
366
Elementary
DISTRICT 277 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LYONS SD 103·NCES 172385002599
Lincoln Elementary School
4300 Grove Ave, Brookfield, IL 60513 · (708) 783-4600 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL366 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% of Illinois public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
9.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
269 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 56%
Community
1
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 | 47 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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 Elementary School→Washington Middle School
Based on grade levels within Lyons SD 103. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
40.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +15.9pp since 2023
Math
23.6%
IL avg 37.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.1% | 23.6% |
| 2023-24 | 24.2% | 21.3% |
% 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
31.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School's state test result (31.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary School this school | 366 | 73.5% | 31.9% |
| Fullerton Elementary School Addison | 384 | 72.4% | 32.1% |
| Irving Elementary School Berwyn | 415 | 70.6% | 44.5% |
| Washington Elementary School Elgin | 446 | 72.2% | 27.9% |
| Howe Elementary School Beach Park | 318 | 75.5% | 15.1% |
| Rupley Elementary School Elk Grove Village | 280 | 76.1% | 23.8% |
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 Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #1,205 of 1,925 | #368 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #1,496 of 2,077 ▼ 367 | #485 of 829 ▼ 149 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #1,337 of 2,077 ▲ 69 | #457 of 829 ▲ 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 366 | #1,169 of 2,419 | #483 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.1:1 | #54 of 2,035 | #35 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.3% | #1,055 of 2,042 | #392 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.5% | #662 of 2,132 | #424 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.6% | #147 of 1,461 | #93 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
366
-76 (-17%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 486
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 | 366 | 40.2 | 9.1:1 | 73% (269) |
| 2023-24 | 378 | 38.2 | 9.9:1 | 75% (285) |
| 2022-23 | 416 | 36.2 | 11.5:1 | 70% (290) |
| 2020-21 | 442 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 535 | 39.1 | 13.7:1 | 66% (355) |
| 2015-16 | 547 | 37 | 14.8:1 | 66% (360) |
| 2010-11 | 555 | 38 | 14.6:1 | 56% (313) |
| 2000-01 | 485 | 34 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 486 | 31 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (535 to 366); teachers up 3% (39.1 to 40.2).
About Lincoln Elementary School
Federal records list Lincoln Elementary School as an elementary school in Brookfield, Illinois. Its 366 students are spread across pre-K through 5.
Within Lyons SD 103, Lincoln Elementary School is one of 6 schools. The district enrolls 2,042 students.
A majority of students at Lincoln Elementary School, 72%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 19% White, 5% Black, and 3% multiracial. Cook County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Lincoln Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 44%.
Teachers at the school number 40.2 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 9.1:1. The 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois is higher than this school's figure. Roughly 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.
allk12 grades Lincoln Elementary School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with Illinois schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Lincoln Elementary School's results are 2.8 points above predicted: 31.9% against 29.1%.
Census estimates describe Cook County this way: median household income is about $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 1,406 public schools in Cook County, with a combined enrollment of about 697,934.
The closest public school to Lincoln Elementary School is Congress Park Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of Lincoln Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Lincoln Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Lincoln Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 17%, from 442 to 366.
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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 Lyons SD 103
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 659 students
- Edison Elementary SchoolElementary · 282 students
- Home Elementary SchoolElementary · 256 students
- J W Robinson Jr Elementary SchoolElementary · 251 students
- Costello SchoolElementary · 228 students
Other schools in Brookfield
- S E Gross Middle SchoolMiddle · 498 students
- Congress Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 419 students
- Hollywood Elementary SchoolElementary · 114 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary School is the 92nd largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 868 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolPalatine, IL · 772 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolCalumet City, IL · 717 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolBelvidere, IL · 573 students
- Lincoln ElementaryPlainfield, IL · 536 students
Nearby schools
- Congress Park Elementary School0.7 mi · 419
- Costello School0.8 mi · 228
- Washington Middle School1.1 mi · 659
- S E Gross Middle School1.1 mi · 498
- Hollywood Elementary School1.2 mi · 114
- Riverside Brookfield Twp High School1.2 mi · 1,663
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow large is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 366 students in grades PK-05.
Is Lincoln Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lincoln Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Lincoln Elementary School have?
Lincoln Elementary School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1:1.
How diverse is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School reports a student body of 19% White, 72% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Lincoln Elementary School public or private?
Lincoln Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lyons SD 103.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.