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Enrollment
736
Middle
DISTRICT 812 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDWARDSVILLE CUSD 7·NCES 171353001640
Lincoln Middle School
145 West St, Edwardsville, IL 62025 · (618) 656-0485 · Madison County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL736 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of Illinois public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
189 students
DISTRICT 25% · 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 | 216 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 254 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 266 | 36% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · 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
54.5%
IL avg 51.0% . +14.9pp since 2023
Math
39.5%
IL avg 37.9% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.5% | 39.5% |
| 2023-24 | 39.6% | 28.5% |
% 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
47.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Middle School
Lincoln Middle School's state test result (47.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Middle School this school | 736 | 25.7% | 47.8% |
| Sycamore Middle School Sycamore | 847 | 25.9% | 46.6% |
| Mahomet-Seymour Jr High School Mahomet | 812 | 23.3% | 67.0% |
| Richard F Bernotas Middle School Crystal Lake | 737 | 28.0% | 46.6% |
| Amelia V Carriel Jr High O Fallon | 664 | 26.7% | 57.8% |
| Mascoutah Middle School Mascoutah | 973 | 21.2% | 60.8% |
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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #226 of 578 | #4 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #241 of 640 ▲ 25 | #4 of 14 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #354 of 640 ▲ 46 | #4 of 14 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 736 | #113 of 691 | #8 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #322 of 558 | #2 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.0% | #322 of 560 | #6 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.7% | #487 of 581 | #12 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.5% | #373 of 440 | #8 of 11 |
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
736
-23 (-3%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 809
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 | 736 | 55 | 13.4:1 | 26% (189) |
| 2023-24 | 819 | 53.5 | 15.3:1 | 27% (224) |
| 2022-23 | 818 | 52 | 15.7:1 | 26% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 759 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 771 | 44.9 | 17.2:1 | 20% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 797 | 49 | 16.3:1 | 18% (142) |
| 2010-11 | 818 | 57 | 14.3:1 | 15% (126) |
| 2000-01 | 1,495 | 98 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 809 | 44 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (771 to 736); teachers up 22% (44.9 to 55).
About Lincoln Middle School
Lincoln Middle School is a large middle-grades school found in Edwardsville, Illinois. It reports enrollment of 736 students in grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in Illinois enroll around 462, and this school is 59% larger than that mark.
Besides Lincoln Middle School, Edwardsville CUSD 7 runs 12 other schools. The district enrolls 7,060 students.
About 75% of the student body at Lincoln Middle School is White. Other groups include 9% Black, 8% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Madison County residents are about 83% White. A diversity index of 42% means there is a 42% chance two randomly chosen students at Lincoln Middle School are from different groups.
The school has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.4 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois. The school reported 26% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Madison County averages 46%, higher than here.
Lincoln Middle School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 38% of Illinois public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lincoln Middle School falls in the middle 80% of Illinois schools: 47.8% actual against 56.7% predicted.
Madison County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $75,793, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 84 public schools in the county, enrolling about 35,253, Lincoln Middle School among them.
About 0.2 miles separate Lincoln Middle School from the closest public school, Woodland Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Lincoln Middle School places 5th out of 5 schools in its immediate area.
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 3%.
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Madison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
264,238
Census ACS
Median income
$75,793
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
35,253 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Edwardsville CUSD 7
- Edwardsville High SchoolHigh · 2,342 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 888 students
- Albert Cassens ElementaryElementary · 477 students
- Woodland Elementary SchoolElementary · 417 students
- Columbus Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- N O Nelson Elementary SchoolElementary · 347 students
Other schools in Edwardsville
- Edwardsville High SchoolHigh · 2,342 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 888 students
- Woodland Elementary SchoolElementary · 417 students
- Columbus Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- N O Nelson Elementary SchoolElementary · 347 students
- Goshen ElementaryElementary · 346 students
Other Lincoln Middle schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Lincoln Middle. Lincoln Middle School is the 10th largest of the 33.
- Lincoln Middle SchoolBerwyn, IL · 793 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMt Prospect, IL · 784 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolPark Ridge, IL · 749 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolSchiller Park, IL · 474 students
- Lincoln MiddleAlameda, CA · 971 students
Nearby schools
- Woodland Elementary School0.2 mi · 417
- N O Nelson Elementary School0.7 mi · 347
- Columbus Elementary School0.7 mi · 373
- LeClaire Elementary School1.3 mi · 312
- Edwardsville High School1.4 mi · 2,342
- Goshen Elementary2.6 mi · 346
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Middle SchoolHow many students attend Lincoln Middle School?
Lincoln Middle School enrolls approximately 736 students in grades 06-08.
Is Lincoln Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lincoln Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lincoln Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lincoln Middle School is approximately 13.4:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lincoln Middle School?
At Lincoln Middle School, the student body is approximately 75% White, 6% Hispanic, 9% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Lincoln Middle School in?
Lincoln Middle School is part of Edwardsville CUSD 7.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.