Lincolnwood Elem School

Set in Evanston, Illinois, Lincolnwood Elem School is a low-enrollment K-5 school, one of the schools within Evanston CCSD 65. It teaches 288 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 24% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Lincolnwood Elem School is one of 16 schools operated by Evanston CCSD 65, a district that educates 6,136 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Lincolnwood Elem School lists that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 31% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 44% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Lincolnwood Elem School shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cook County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lincolnwood Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.5%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of +11.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Lincolnwood Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Willard Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincolnwood Elem School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 58.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincolnwood Elem School has decreased 29%, going from 405 students in 2018 to 288 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 23% to 31%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Lincolnwood Elem School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.