Lincoln Trail Elementary School

Lincoln Trail Elementary School, a reasonably sized elementary school in Lamar, Indiana, operated by North Spencer County Sch Corp, educates 380 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

North Spencer County Sch Corp comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,166 students; Lincoln Trail Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Lincoln Trail Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.5:1, putting Lincoln Trail Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln Trail Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Spencer County shows median household earnings sit near $74,506, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Spencer County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,231 students), of which Lincoln Trail Elementary School is one.

Heritage Hills High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Trail Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 60.7%.

Lincoln Trail Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Lincoln Trail Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 7% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 380). Class-load math has loosened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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