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How has Abraham Lincoln Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
633
Elementary
DISTRICT 501 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PERRY TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS·NCES 180882001455
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
5241 Brehob Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46217 · (317) 789-3800 · Marion County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL633 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of Indiana public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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 Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
511 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 127 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 134 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 128 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 127 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 18% |
This year's 1st grade class (127) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 57% · 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
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
22.6%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
32.4%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 23 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 Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. 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
25.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.4%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% typical for Indiana 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 Indiana'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 Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School's state test result (25.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary School this school | 633 | 80.7% | 25.9% |
| Clinton Young Elementary School Indianapolis | 595 | 80.3% | 19.4% |
| Winchester Village Elementary Indianapolis | 546 | 81.5% | 17.1% |
| Harrison Hill Elementary School Fort Wayne | 612 | 70.9% | 25.6% |
| Jeremiah Gray Elementary School Indianapolis | 591 | 73.3% | 28.1% |
| Homecroft Elementary School Indianapolis | 493 | 73.8% | 34.4% |
Matched among Indiana elementary 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 Abraham Lincoln Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Marion County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #773 of 983 | #60 of 140 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.4% | #720 of 986 | #49 of 142 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #802 of 986 | #64 of 142 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 633 | #135 of 1,079 | #33 of 157 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #425 of 991 | #67 of 142 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.7% | #6 of 996 | #2 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.7% | #43 of 1,058 | #16 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.9% | #28 of 597 | #8 of 86 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
633
-294 (-32%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 752
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 18.9:1
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 | 633 | 43.2 | 14.7:1 | 81% (511) |
| 2023-24 | 630 | 41.8 | 15.1:1 | 80% (502) |
| 2022-23 | 897 | 62.2 | 14.4:1 | 79% (710) |
| 2020-21 | 927 | 49 | 18.9:1 | 82% (762) |
| 2017-18 | 1,036 | 50 | 20.7:1 | 83% (860) |
| 2015-16 | 924 | 43 | 21.5:1 | 75% (693) |
| 2010-11 | 852 | 44 | 19.4:1 | 75% (636) |
| 2000-01 | 726 | 41 | 17.7:1 | 48% (351) |
| 1990-91 | 752 | 33 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Abraham Lincoln Elementary School.
About Abraham Lincoln Elementary School
Indianapolis, Indiana, is home to Abraham Lincoln Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in grades 1 through 5 and enrolls 633 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Indiana enroll about 436 students on average.
Perry Township Schools enrolls 16,243 students in 21 schools, including Abraham Lincoln Elementary School.
No group is above 50% at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School; the largest is Hispanic, at 30%. The rest of enrollment is 29% White, 21% Asian, 14% Black, and 6% multiracial. Among all residents of Marion County, the Hispanic share is about 14%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 76%.
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School lists 43.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.7 students per teacher. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Indiana is 15.5:1. About 81% of students at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 60% average among public schools in Marion County.
Abraham Lincoln Elementary 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 37% of Indiana public elementary schools.
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Indiana schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 25.9% and a predicted 18.4%.
In Marion County, the median household earns about $66,346 a year, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Marion County counts 274 public schools with about 161,456 students.
William Henry Burkhart Elementary, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Abraham Lincoln Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is 4th of 5 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 633, from 927 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 14.7 students per teacher, compared with 18.9 in 2020-21.
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Marion County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
975,809
Census ACS
Median income
$66,346
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
274
161,456 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Perry Township Schools
- Perry Meridian High SchoolHigh · 2,455 students
- Southport High SchoolHigh · 2,431 students
- Southport Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,304 students
- Perry Meridian Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,278 students
- Rosa Parks Elementary SchoolElementary · 658 students
- Mary Bryan Elementary SchoolElementary · 644 students
Other schools in Indianapolis
- Indiana Connections AcademyCombined · 5,376 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 3,682 students
- Franklin Central High SchoolHigh · 3,438 students
- Warren Central High SchoolHigh · 3,391 students
- Ben Davis High SchoolHigh · 3,315 students
- Pike High SchoolHigh · 3,188 students
Other Abraham Lincoln Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 11 states are named Abraham Lincoln Elementary. Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 22.
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolHammond, IN · 565 students
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolEast Chicago, IN · 282 students
- Abraham Lincoln ElementaryCupertino, CA · 662 students
- Abraham Lincoln ElementaryPalm Desert, CA · 607 students
- Abraham Lincoln ElementaryWENATCHEE, WA · 604 students
Nearby schools
- William Henry Burkhart Elementary0.7 mi · 449
- Excel Center - University Heights1.2 mi · 432
- RISE Learning Center1.5 mi · 200
- Southport High School1.8 mi · 2,431
- The Hope Academy - Inc.1.9 mi · 31
- Homecroft Kindergarten2.3 mi · 359
Frequently asked questions
About Abraham Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow large is Abraham Lincoln Elementary School?
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 633 students in grades 01-05.
What age range does Abraham Lincoln Elementary School serve?
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School serves students from grade 01 through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is approximately 14.7:1 (43 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Abraham Lincoln Elementary School?
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School reports a student body of 29% White, 30% Hispanic, 14% Black, 21% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Abraham Lincoln Elementary School?
Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is overseen by Perry Township Schools in Marion County.
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