Lincoln School

Set in Peoria, Illinois, Lincoln School is a well-populated K-5 school, part of Peoria SD 150. It teaches 823 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Lincoln School sits 116% above that benchmark.

Peoria SD 150 runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 13,312 students. Lincoln School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln School lists that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 35% Hispanic, 10% White, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Peoria County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.3%; this one delivers 8.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Peoria County shows median household income runs about $65,108, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Peoria County runs 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,827 students), of which Lincoln School is one.

Glen Oak Comm Learning Cntr is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincoln School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 25.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln School has edged up 5%, going from 783 students in 2018 to 823 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 63% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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