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Enrollment
536
Elementary
DISTRICT 563 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLAINFIELD SD 202·NCES 173174005732
Lincoln Elementary
14740 Meadow Ln, Plainfield, IL 60544 · (815) 577-4500 · Will County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL536 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
117 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
76.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
64.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.5% | 64.8% |
| 2023-24 | 62.5% | 53.8% |
% 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
69.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.9%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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
Lincoln Elementary's state test result (69.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary this school | 536 | 21.8% | 69.7% |
| Mackeben Elementary School Algonquin | 522 | 22.8% | N/A |
| Conley Elementary School Algonquin | 598 | 23.4% | 63.8% |
| Centennial School Bartlett | 514 | 22.8% | 59.1% |
| Walkers Grove Elementary School Plainfield | 634 | 21.8% | 74.0% |
| Hoffman Elementary School Glenview | 481 | 26.0% | 70.3% |
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 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Will County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.7% | #130 of 1,925 | #15 of 94 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.8% | #316 of 2,077 ▼ 65 | #30 of 100 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.5% | #199 of 2,077 ▲ 14 | #11 of 100 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 536 | #414 of 2,419 | #35 of 116 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #970 of 2,035 | #45 of 107 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.3% | #644 of 2,042 | #55 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.8% | #1,933 of 2,132 | #81 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.4% | #137 of 1,461 | #8 of 71 |
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
536
-129 (-19%) vs 2020
-40% since 2010-11, when it was 889
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 | 536 | 40.5 | 13.2:1 | 22% (117) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 42.5 | 12.1:1 | 24% (122) |
| 2022-23 | 532 | 40 | 13.3:1 | 24% (126) |
| 2020-21 | 665 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 793 | 45.1 | 17.6:1 | 17% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 805 | 43 | 18.7:1 | 13% (105) |
| 2010-11 | 889 | 46 | 19.3:1 | 12% (107) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (793 to 536); teachers down 10% (45.1 to 40.5).
About Lincoln Elementary
Lincoln Elementary, located in Plainfield, Illinois, is a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 536 students. It has 41% more students than the average for elementary schools in Illinois (about 381).
Plainfield SD 202 has a total of 30 schools and 24,556 students, Lincoln Elementary among them.
The share of White students at Lincoln Elementary is 61%, a majority. The remaining students are 16% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 7% Black, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put Will County at about 62% White, close to the school's figure. A diversity index of 58% means there is a 58% chance two randomly chosen students at Lincoln Elementary are from different groups.
Lincoln Elementary lists 40.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.2 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 22% of the student body. Compared with the 44% average for public schools in Will County, the school's rate is lower.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Lincoln Elementary would score about 58.9%. It scores 69.7%, 10.8 points above that figure.
The school's county is Will County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $109,984 a year, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Lincoln Elementary shares Will County with 208 other public schools.
Richard Ira Jones Middle School is about 0.8 miles from Lincoln Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Lincoln Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Lincoln Elementary comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 19%.
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Will County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
701,462
Census ACS
Median income
$109,984
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
209
113,008 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Plainfield SD 202
- Plainfield North High SchoolHigh · 2,399 students
- Plainfield South High SchoolHigh · 2,323 students
- Plainfield East High SchoolHigh · 1,825 students
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,800 students
- John F Kennedy Middle SchoolMiddle · 912 students
- Timber Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
Other schools in Plainfield
- Plainfield North High SchoolHigh · 2,399 students
- Plainfield South High SchoolHigh · 2,323 students
- Plainfield East High SchoolHigh · 1,825 students
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,800 students
- John F Kennedy Middle SchoolMiddle · 912 students
- Timber Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 885 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary is the 31st 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 Elementary SchoolElmhurst, IL · 527 students
Nearby schools
- Richard Ira Jones Middle School0.8 mi · 851
- Wallin Oaks Elementary School1.0 mi · 677
- Plainfield High School1.6 mi · 1,800
- Walkers Grove Elementary School1.7 mi · 634
- Indian Trail Middle School1.9 mi · 520
- Eagle Pointe Elementary School2.2 mi · 594
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln ElementaryHow many students attend Lincoln Elementary?
Lincoln Elementary enrolls approximately 536 students in grades KG-05.
Is Lincoln Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lincoln Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Lincoln Elementary have?
Lincoln Elementary employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Lincoln Elementary?
Student demographics at Lincoln Elementary are roughly 61% White, 16% Hispanic, 7% Black, 13% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln Elementary?
Lincoln Elementary is overseen by Plainfield SD 202 in Will County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.