Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 277 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLWOOD SD 88·NCES 170576000248
Lincoln Elementary School
3420 Jackson St, Bellwood, IL 60104 · (708) 410-3100 · Cook County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% 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.
- A-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
14.0:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
308 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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→Roosevelt Middle School
Based on grade levels within Bellwood SD 88. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
35.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +19.0pp since 2023
Math
27.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +17.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.1% | 27.8% |
| 2023-24 | 16.1% | 10.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.1%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 14% 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 (26.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary School this school | 310 | 99.4% | 26.0% |
| Taft School Harvey | 308 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Earle Elementary School Chicago | 286 | 98.3% | 14.6% |
| Eisenhower School South Holland | 274 | 99.6% | 34.9% |
| Madison School South Holland | 277 | 99.6% | 34.5% |
| Claremont Magnet Elementary School Chicago | 335 | 96.4% | 19.9% |
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 | 26.0% | #1,414 of 1,925 | #464 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.8% | #1,363 of 2,077 ▲ 227 | #421 of 829 ▲ 123 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #1,506 of 2,077 ▲ 200 | #538 of 829 ▲ 109 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #1,485 of 2,419 | #616 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #1,237 of 2,035 | #548 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.9% | #1,009 of 2,042 | #370 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #33 of 2,132 | #22 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.1% | #657 of 1,461 | #354 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
310
-5 (-2%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 348
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 | 310 | 22.2 | 14.0:1 | 99% (308) |
| 2023-24 | 306 | 21.5 | 14.2:1 | 100% (305) |
| 2022-23 | 293 | 23 | 12.7:1 | 99% (291) |
| 2020-21 | 315 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 365 | 26 | 14.0:1 | 99% (361) |
| 2015-16 | 396 | 25 | 15.8:1 | 55% (218) |
| 2010-11 | 509 | 20 | 25.4:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 374 | 21 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 348 | 21 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (365 to 310); teachers down 15% (26 to 22.2).
About Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School is a small elementary school in Bellwood, Illinois, under Bellwood SD 88. The school had 310 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Federal data list 6 schools in Bellwood SD 88, with 1,998 students enrolled.
By race and ethnicity, Lincoln Elementary School is 67% Black. It is also 30% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Cook County is roughly 22% Black. Lincoln Elementary School has a diversity index of 46%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at Lincoln Elementary School is 22.2 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 14.0:1. Across elementary schools in Illinois, the average ratio is about 13.9:1. Around 99% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Cook County report 66%.
allk12 grades Lincoln Elementary School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Illinois public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Lincoln Elementary School, the prediction is 14.1% and the result is 26.0%.
Within Cook County, median household income is about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Cook County number 1,406 and enroll about 697,934.
Of nearby public schools, Early Childhood Center is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Lincoln Elementary School is behind the 27.7% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 7.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The school's size has been steady, with 315 students in 2020-21 and 310 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Bellwood SD 88
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 614 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolElementary · 363 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · 304 students
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
- Early Childhood CenterElementary · 178 students
- Grant PrimaryElementary
Other schools in Bellwood
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolMiddle · 614 students
- Jefferson Primary SchoolElementary · 380 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · 304 students
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary SchoolElementary · 229 students
- Early Childhood CenterElementary · 178 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary School is the 133rd 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
- Early Childhood Center0.2 mi · 178
- McKinley Elementary School0.8 mi · 304
- Roosevelt Middle School1.0 mi · 614
- Thurgood Marshall Elementary School1.0 mi · 229
- Jefferson Primary School1.2 mi · 380
- Irving Middle School1.2 mi · 515
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 310 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Lincoln Elementary School serve?
Lincoln Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lincoln Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lincoln Elementary School is approximately 14.0:1 (22 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School reports a student body of 30% Hispanic, 67% Black, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School is overseen by Bellwood SD 88 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.