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Enrollment
717
Elementary
STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINCOLN ESD 156·NCES 170810000425
Lincoln Elementary School
912 Burnham Ave, Calumet City, IL 60409 · (708) 862-6620 · Cook County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL717 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% 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.
- ABeats 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
17.1:1
42 FTE teachers
STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
714 students
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 | 49 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 83 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 72 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (72).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
48.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +23.5pp since 2023
Math
20.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 49 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 24 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.7% | 20.8% |
| 2023-24 | 25.2% | 9.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
32.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 14% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 (32.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary School this school | 717 | 99.6% | 32.6% |
| Coolidge Elementary School Lansing | 670 | 99.9% | 32.3% |
| McKay Elementary School Chicago | 616 | 96.8% | 14.0% |
| Lincoln School Peoria | 823 | 93.9% | 8.7% |
| Glen Oak Comm Learning Cntr Peoria | 794 | 91.7% | 10.9% |
| Annie Jo Gordon Comm Lrning Cntr Peoria | 542 | 92.3% | 12.9% |
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 | 32.6% | #1,173 of 1,925 | #355 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.8% | #1,575 of 2,077 ▲ 81 | #524 of 829 ▲ 51 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #1,047 of 2,077 ▲ 323 | #343 of 829 ▲ 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 717 | #111 of 2,419 | #74 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,851 of 2,035 | #762 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.9% | #857 of 2,042 | #309 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #23 of 2,132 | #14 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.3% | #252 of 1,461 | #161 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
717
-105 (-13%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 683
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 | 717 | 42 | 17.1:1 | 100% (714) |
| 2023-24 | 740 | 49 | 15.1:1 | 100% (737) |
| 2022-23 | 772 | 49 | 15.8:1 | 99% (764) |
| 2020-21 | 822 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 973 | 50.9 | 19.1:1 | 90% (876) |
| 2015-16 | 990 | 1 | 990.0:1 | 95% (944) |
| 2010-11 | 1,029 | 55 | 18.7:1 | 93% (960) |
| 2000-01 | 893 | 57 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 683 | 39 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (973 to 717); teachers down 18% (50.9 to 42).
About Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School is a large elementary school located in Calumet City, Illinois. Students in pre-K through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 717 students. Elementary schools in Illinois have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 88% higher.
Lincoln ESD 156 operates Lincoln Elementary School.
The share of Black students at Lincoln Elementary School is 53%, a majority. The school is also 44% Hispanic. That is higher than the 22% Black share among all Cook County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 52%.
On staff are 42 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. About 100% of students at Lincoln Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Cook County average 66%.
Lincoln Elementary School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 60% of Illinois public elementary schools.
Lincoln Elementary School scores 18.6 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 32.6% actual versus 14.0% predicted. That puts it in the top 10% of Illinois schools on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Cook County, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Cook County has 1,406 public schools with about 697,934 students, including Lincoln Elementary School.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Thornton Fractnl No High School, is about 0.5 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Lincoln Elementary School is 1st on average proficiency.
Lincoln Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
The school's student count decreased 13% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Lincoln Elementary School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Calumet City
- Thornton Fractnl No High SchoolHigh · 1,425 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolElementary · 571 students
- Caroline Sibley Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 349 students
- Wentworth Intermediate SchoolElementary · 315 students
- Wentworth Jr High SchoolMiddle · 302 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary School is the 12th largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 868 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolPalatine, IL · 772 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolBelvidere, IL · 573 students
- Lincoln ElementaryPlainfield, IL · 536 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElmhurst, IL · 527 students
Nearby schools
- Thornton Fractnl No High School0.5 mi · 1,425
- Wilson Elementary School0.6 mi · 349
- Hammond Academy of Science & Tech0.8 mi · 578
- Wentworth Jr High School0.8 mi · 302
- Wentworth Intermediate School0.9 mi · 315
- Hoover Elementary School1.0 mi · 571
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow large is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 717 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Lincoln Elementary School serve?
Lincoln Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lincoln Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lincoln Elementary School is approximately 17.1:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lincoln Elementary School?
At Lincoln Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 44% Hispanic, 53% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Lincoln Elementary School public or private?
Lincoln Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lincoln ESD 156.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.