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Enrollment
868
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS DIST 299·NCES 170993000918
Lincoln Elementary School
615 W Kemper Pl, Chicago, IL 60614 · (773) 534-5720 · Cook County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL868 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
88 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 93 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 94 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 101 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 106 | 12% |
| Grade 9 | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 12% smaller than its 8th grade class (106).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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→Lincoln Park High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
86.4%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.8pp since 2023
Math
80.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.4% | 80.1% |
| 2023-24 | 76.6% | 71.5% |
% 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
82.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% 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 17 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 (82.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary School this school | 868 | 10.1% | 82.4% |
| Bell Elementary School Chicago | 902 | 10.1% | 78.6% |
| Leggee Elementary School Huntley | 877 | 17.7% | 67.2% |
| Elmwood Elementary School Naperville | 726 | 13.6% | 69.1% |
| Hawthorne Elementary Scholastic Academy Chicago | 642 | 12.0% | 93.6% |
| Mayer Elementary School Chicago | 707 | 8.8% | 74.6% |
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 | 82.4% | #17 of 1,925 | #8 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #79 of 2,077 ▼ 36 | #32 of 829 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.4% | #48 of 2,077 ▼ 10 | #23 of 829 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 868 | #41 of 2,419 | #33 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #1,735 of 2,035 | #722 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.5% | #596 of 2,042 | #220 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.1% | #2,083 of 2,132 | #790 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.2% | #1,300 of 1,461 | #595 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
868
-74 (-8%) vs 2020
+51% since 1990-91, when it was 573
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 | 868 | 54 | 16.1:1 | 10% (88) |
| 2023-24 | 851 | 52.5 | 16.2:1 | 12% (102) |
| 2022-23 | 811 | 51.5 | 15.8:1 | 11% (92) |
| 2020-21 | 942 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 897 | 44.4 | 20.2:1 | 16% (143) |
| 2015-16 | 837 | 42 | 19.9:1 | 15% (122) |
| 2010-11 | 741 | 34 | 21.8:1 | 14% (101) |
| 2000-01 | 561 | 28 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 28 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (897 to 868); teachers up 22% (44.4 to 54).
About Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School is a large elementary school in Chicago Public Schools Dist 299, located in Chicago, Illinois. It has an enrollment of 868 students in kindergarten through 8. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average enrollment is about 381.
Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 has 324,396 students in 622 schools, and Lincoln Elementary School is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at Lincoln Elementary School is White: 60%. The remaining shares are 12% Asian, 9% Black, 9% multiracial, and 9% Hispanic. Cook County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lincoln Elementary School scores 60%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lincoln Elementary School is 16.1:1, based on 54 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Illinois average 13.9:1. Lunch program data show 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cook County is 66%.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Lincoln Elementary School ranks in the top 10% in Illinois. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 82.4%, against a prediction of 65.7%.
Census data for Cook County show the median household earns about $83,498 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting Lincoln Elementary School, Cook County has 1,406 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Lincoln Park High School is closest at about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Lincoln Elementary School ranks 1st on proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
The school shrank from 942 students in 2020-21 to 868 in 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about Lincoln Elementary School, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Chicago Public Schools Dist 299
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Other schools in Chicago
- Lane Technical High SchoolHigh · 4,604 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 4,487 students
- Curie Metropolitan High SchoolHigh · 3,099 students
- Kenwood Academy High SchoolHigh · 2,268 students
- Young Magnet High SchoolHigh · 2,223 students
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 2,214 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolPalatine, IL · 772 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolCalumet City, IL · 717 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolBelvidere, IL · 573 students
- Lincoln ElementaryPlainfield, IL · 536 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElmhurst, IL · 527 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Park High School0.4 mi · 2,214
- Alcott Elementary School0.4 mi · 567
- Mayer Elementary School0.7 mi · 707
- Newberry Elementary Math & Science Academy0.7 mi · 330
- LaSalle Elementary Language Academy0.8 mi · 456
- Harriet Tubman Elementary School0.9 mi · 308
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow large is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 868 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Lincoln Elementary School serve?
Lincoln Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does Lincoln Elementary School have?
Lincoln Elementary School employs 54 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lincoln Elementary School?
At Lincoln Elementary School, the student body is approximately 60% White, 9% Hispanic, 9% Black, 12% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Lincoln Elementary School public or private?
Lincoln Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chicago Public Schools Dist 299.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.