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Enrollment
774
Middle
DISTRICT 732 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NAPERVILLE CUSD 203·NCES 172771002934
Lincoln Jr High School
1320 Olympus Dr, Naperville, IL 60565 · (630) 420-6370 · DuPage County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL774 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% of Illinois public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
108 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 56%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 237 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 278 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 259 | 33% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
83.7%
IL avg 51.0% . +8.6pp since 2023
Math
64.9%
IL avg 37.9% . +9.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 84 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.7% | 64.9% |
| 2023-24 | 75.1% | 55.7% |
% 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
73.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.5%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Jr High School
Lincoln Jr High School's state test result (73.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Jr High School this school | 774 | 14.0% | 73.8% |
| Washington Jr High School Naperville | 551 | 13.4% | 69.5% |
| Lake Zurich Middle - S Campus Lake Zurich | 599 | 15.4% | 78.8% |
| Heineman Middle School Algonquin | 724 | 21.3% | 60.6% |
| South Middle School Arlington Heights | 812 | 15.6% | 65.9% |
| Edison Middle School Wheaton | 635 | 21.1% | 68.0% |
Matched among Illinois middle 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 Jr High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In DuPage County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.8% | #18 of 578 | #5 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.9% | #49 of 640 no change | #11 of 51 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.7% | #48 of 640 ▲ 13 | #10 of 51 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 774 | #94 of 691 | #10 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #364 of 558 | #40 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.4% | #284 of 560 | #38 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.0% | #566 of 581 | #38 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.1% | #395 of 440 | #34 of 37 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
774
+15 (+2%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 840
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 | 774 | 56.3 | 13.8:1 | 14% (108) |
| 2023-24 | 794 | 57.3 | 13.9:1 | 15% (117) |
| 2022-23 | 766 | 56.4 | 13.6:1 | 14% (111) |
| 2020-21 | 759 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 799 | 53 | 15.1:1 | 12% (98) |
| 2015-16 | 781 | 53 | 14.7:1 | 12% (93) |
| 2010-11 | 861 | 53 | 16.3:1 | 9% (80) |
| 2000-01 | 942 | 58 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 840 | 50 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Jr High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (799 to 774); teachers up 6% (53 to 56.3).
About Lincoln Jr High School
In Naperville, Illinois, part of DuPage County, Lincoln Jr High School is a middle school. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 774 students. Middle schools in Illinois average about 462 students, which makes this school 68% bigger than average.
Naperville CUSD 203 counts 22 schools and 16,047 students, including Lincoln Jr High School.
About 71% of the student body at Lincoln Jr High School is White. Other groups make up 10% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Black. A diversity index of 47% means there is a 47% chance two randomly chosen students at Lincoln Jr High School are from different groups.
The school has 56.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.8 students per teacher. Middle schools in Illinois have an average ratio of 13.0:1. The school reported 14% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in DuPage County report 34%.
On the allk12 Grade, Lincoln Jr High School lands at A, ahead of 92% of Illinois public middle schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Lincoln Jr High School is 10.4 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Illinois schools.
The county, DuPage County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $112,096 a year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Lincoln Jr High School, DuPage County has 277 public schools.
Lincoln Jr High School is about 0.6 miles from Maplebrook Elementary School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Lincoln Jr High School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Lincoln Jr High School is coded City: Mid-size, for schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment went from 759 in 2020-21 to 774 in 2024-25, a change of 15 students.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
DuPage County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,024
Census ACS
Median income
$112,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
138,557 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Naperville CUSD 203
- Naperville Central High SchoolHigh · 2,589 students
- Naperville North High SchoolHigh · 2,467 students
- Kennedy Junior High SchoolMiddle · 937 students
- Jefferson Jr High SchoolMiddle · 832 students
- Elmwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 726 students
- Steeple Run Elementary SchoolElementary · 622 students
Other schools in Naperville
- Neuqua Valley High SchoolHigh · 3,018 students
- Naperville Central High SchoolHigh · 2,589 students
- Naperville North High SchoolHigh · 2,467 students
- Scullen Middle SchoolMiddle · 948 students
- Clifford Crone Middle SchoolMiddle · 891 students
- Jefferson Jr High SchoolMiddle · 832 students
Other Lincoln Junior High schools
8 other US public schools in 5 states are named Lincoln Junior High. Lincoln Jr High School is the largest of the 9.
- Lincoln Jr High SchoolSkokie, IL · 628 students
- Lincoln Jr High SchoolLincoln, IL · 321 students
- Lincoln Jr High SchoolLa Salle, IL · 269 students
- Lincoln Junior High SchoolDolton, IL · 168 students
- Lincoln Junior HighTaft, CA · 748 students
Nearby schools
- Maplebrook Elementary School0.6 mi · 512
- Elmwood Elementary School0.8 mi · 726
- Owen Elementary School0.8 mi · 577
- Highlands Elementary School1.4 mi · 510
- Scott Elementary School1.5 mi · 435
- Prairie Elementary School1.5 mi · 515
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Jr High SchoolHow large is Lincoln Jr High School?
Lincoln Jr High School enrolls approximately 774 students in grades 06-08.
Is Lincoln Jr High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lincoln Jr High School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Lincoln Jr High School have?
Lincoln Jr High School employs 56 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Lincoln Jr High School?
Student demographics at Lincoln Jr High School are roughly 71% White, 9% Hispanic, 4% Black, 10% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Lincoln Jr High School in?
Lincoln Jr High School is part of Naperville CUSD 203.
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