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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Lincoln Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
772
Elementary
DISTRICT 531 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALATINE CCSD 15·NCES 173042003150
Lincoln Elementary School
1021 N Ridgewood Ln, Palatine, IL 60067 · (847) 963-5700 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL772 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
365 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 | 67 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 125 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 119 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 124 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (125) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (118).
Student demographics
62%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
41.2%
IL avg 51.0% . +13.9pp since 2023
Math
34.1%
IL avg 37.9% . +14.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 14 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.2% | 34.1% |
| 2023-24 | 27.3% | 20.0% |
% 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
35.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.2%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 (35.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary School this school | 772 | 47.3% | 35.5% |
| Jane Addams Elementary School Palatine | 567 | 44.8% | 29.6% |
| McPherson Elementary School Chicago | 794 | 41.7% | 39.1% |
| Virginia Lake Elementary School Palatine | 717 | 42.3% | 40.7% |
| Conrad Fischer Elementary School Elmhurst | 584 | 51.2% | 43.8% |
| River Grove Elementary School River Grove | 722 | 51.0% | 47.2% |
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 | 35.5% | #1,073 of 1,925 | #309 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.1% | #1,148 of 2,077 ▲ 40 | #348 of 829 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #1,308 of 2,077 ▼ 17 | #444 of 829 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 772 | #78 of 2,419 | #55 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,519 of 2,035 | #658 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.2% | #487 of 2,042 | #186 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.3% | #1,375 of 2,132 | #627 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.6% | #1,439 of 1,461 | #655 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
772
+33 (+4%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 641
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 | 772 | 51.8 | 14.9:1 | 47% (365) |
| 2023-24 | 739 | 45.4 | 16.3:1 | 57% (424) |
| 2022-23 | 717 | 41.9 | 17.1:1 | 55% (395) |
| 2020-21 | 739 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 777 | 45.7 | 17.0:1 | 51% (395) |
| 2015-16 | 848 | 47 | 18.0:1 | 49% (416) |
| 2010-11 | 813 | 41 | 19.8:1 | 40% (323) |
| 2000-01 | 756 | 46 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 641 | 36 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (777 to 772); teachers up 13% (45.7 to 51.8).
About Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School is a large elementary school in Palatine, Illinois, administered by Palatine CCSD 15. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 772 students. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Illinois.
Palatine CCSD 15 runs Lincoln Elementary School along with 19 other schools, enrolling 11,715 students in total.
About 54% of the student body at Lincoln Elementary School is Hispanic. The remaining students are 28% White, 8% Asian, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. Among people living in Cook County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 62, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 14.9:1 is based on 51.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Illinois is 13.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. In all, 47% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Cook County average 66%.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Lincoln Elementary School would be expected to post about 44.2%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 35.5%.
For the population of Cook County, the median household earns about $83,498 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Lincoln Elementary School shares Cook County with 1,405 other public schools.
Walter R Sundling Middle School is about 0.7 miles from Lincoln Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Lincoln Elementary School places 4th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale data from NCES put Lincoln Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 4%.
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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 Palatine CCSD 15
- Plum Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,128 students
- Winston Campus Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Virginia Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Walter R Sundling Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Frank C Whiteley Elementary SchoolElementary · 663 students
- Gray M Sanborn Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
Other schools in Palatine
- Wm Fremd High SchoolHigh · 2,689 students
- Palatine High SchoolHigh · 2,535 students
- Winston Campus Middle SchoolMiddle · 847 students
- Virginia Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 717 students
- Walter R Sundling Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Gray M Sanborn Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 868 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
- Walter R Sundling Middle School0.7 mi · 679
- Virginia Lake Elementary School0.7 mi · 717
- Palatine High School0.7 mi · 2,535
- Jane Addams Elementary School1.0 mi · 567
- Gray M Sanborn Elementary School1.3 mi · 661
- Winston Campus Middle School1.5 mi · 847
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow large is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 772 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Lincoln Elementary School serve?
Lincoln Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Lincoln Elementary School?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at Lincoln Elementary School.
How diverse is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School reports a student body of 28% White, 54% Hispanic, 6% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School is overseen by Palatine CCSD 15 in Cook County.
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