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Enrollment
474
Middle
DISTRICT 448 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHILLER PARK SD 81·NCES 173564003711
Lincoln Middle School
9750 Soreng Ave, Schiller Park, IL 60176 · (847) 671-1816 · Cook County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL474 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of Illinois public middle schools
- B-Test 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
14.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
324 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 | 158 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 151 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 165 | 35% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Schiller Park SD 81. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
55.1%
IL avg 51.0% . +9.6pp since 2023
Math
32.2%
IL avg 37.9% . +5.6pp 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 32 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.1% | 32.2% |
| 2023-24 | 45.5% | 26.6% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
46.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 (46.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Middle School this school | 474 | 68.4% | 46.0% |
| Grove Jr High School Elk Grove Village | 741 | 61.1% | 34.9% |
| Jack London Middle School Wheeling | 628 | 63.5% | 39.8% |
| Elm Middle School Elmwood Park | 615 | 63.1% | 46.3% |
| Belvidere South Middle School Belvidere | 754 | 65.1% | 28.6% |
| Simmons Middle School Oak Lawn | 725 | 61.2% | 42.0% |
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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #251 of 578 | #38 of 116 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #330 of 640 ▼ 33 | #70 of 146 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #344 of 640 ▲ 1 | #73 of 146 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 474 | #312 of 691 | #84 of 148 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #387 of 558 | #104 of 138 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #177 of 560 | #47 of 138 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.4% | #112 of 581 | #46 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.8% | #34 of 127 | #12 of 40 |
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
474
+10 (+2%) vs 2020
+39% since 1990-91, when it was 342
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 | 474 | 33.7 | 14.1:1 | 68% (324) |
| 2023-24 | 456 | 35.6 | 12.8:1 | 69% (316) |
| 2022-23 | 457 | 38.7 | 11.8:1 | 70% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 464 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 413 | 35.4 | 11.7:1 | 65% (267) |
| 2015-16 | 421 | 29 | 14.5:1 | 70% (294) |
| 2010-11 | 354 | 31 | 11.4:1 | 69% (246) |
| 2000-01 | 409 | 33 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 342 | 23 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (413 to 474); teachers down 5% (35.4 to 33.7).
About Lincoln Middle School
In Schiller Park, Illinois, part of Cook County, Lincoln Middle School is a middle school. The school enrolls 474 students in grades 6 through 8.
Schiller Park SD 81, which runs Lincoln Middle School, has 3 schools and 1,344 students.
About 49% of students at Lincoln Middle School are Hispanic, the largest single group. The school is also 42% White and 5% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 27%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 58, compared with 70 nationally.
A staff of 33.7 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 14.1:1. The average for middle schools in Illinois, 13.0:1, is lower. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 68%. That is in line with the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
Lincoln Middle School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 69% of Illinois public middle schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Lincoln Middle School beats its 32.0% prediction with 46.0%, a top-10% result in Illinois.
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 poverty rate is about 10%. Across Cook County, 1,406 public schools serve about 697,934 students.
Among nearby public schools, John F Kennedy Elementary School is closest at about 0.4 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Lincoln Middle School is 3rd on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Lincoln Middle School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 464 in 2020-21 and 474 in 2024-25.
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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 Schiller Park SD 81
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 603 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 267 students
Other schools in Schiller Park
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 603 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 267 students
Other Lincoln Middle schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Lincoln Middle. Lincoln Middle School is the 22nd 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 SchoolEdwardsville, IL · 736 students
- Lincoln MiddleAlameda, CA · 971 students
Nearby schools
- John F Kennedy Elementary School0.4 mi · 603
- East Leyden High School0.7 mi · 1,840
- North Elementary School0.9 mi · 199
- Washington Elementary School1.0 mi · 267
- Hester Jr High School1.5 mi · 426
- Passow Elementary School1.5 mi · 387
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lincoln Middle School?
Lincoln Middle School enrolls approximately 474 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Lincoln Middle School serve?
Lincoln Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lincoln Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lincoln Middle School is approximately 14.1:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lincoln Middle School?
Lincoln Middle School reports a student body of 42% White, 49% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln Middle School?
Lincoln Middle School is overseen by Schiller Park SD 81 in Cook County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.