Lindsay School

Located at 3600 Fielding Dr, in Springfield, Illinois, Lindsay School is a mid-sized primary school that teaches 438 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Springfield SD 186.

Springfield SD 186 comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 13,014 students; Lindsay School is among them.

Demographically, Lindsay School records that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 38% White, 13% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Sangamon County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lindsay School records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Lindsay School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 37.8%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sangamon County) records that median household earnings sit near $75,357, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Lindsay School is one of 77 public schools in Sangamon County (combined enrollment of about 27,345 students).

Sandburg Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lindsay School. On composite proficiency, Lindsay School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Lindsay School's enrollment has ticked up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 412 (now 438). White enrollment moved from 46% to 38% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.