Lincoln Elem School

Set in Ottawa, Illinois, Lincoln Elem School is a medium-sized elementary school, overseen by Ottawa ESD 141. It educates 387 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Ottawa ESD 141 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,747 students; Lincoln Elem School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Lincoln Elem School shows that 67% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 24% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, LaSalle County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 69% of students at Lincoln Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against LaSalle County (around 53%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 34.4%, a residual of +2.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (LaSalle County) records that median household income runs about $73,045, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, LaSalle County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,523 students), of which Lincoln Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ottawa Township High School, around 1.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Elem School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Lincoln Elem School's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 489 (now 387). Hispanic enrollment moved from 17% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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