Lincoln Jr High School

Lincoln Jr High School, a close-knit junior high in Lincoln, Illinois, run under Lincoln ESD 27, teaches 321 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 462.

Lincoln ESD 27 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,056 students; Lincoln Jr High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lincoln Jr High School shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 13% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lincoln Jr High School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting Lincoln Jr High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Logan County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln Jr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.4%; this one delivers 39.8%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Logan County put median household earnings sit near $66,358, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Logan County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,448 students), of which Lincoln Jr High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Central Elem School, around 0.1 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Jr High School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 365 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 91% to 76% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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