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Does Lincoln Elementary School have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
416
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CEDAR FALLS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190651000226
Lincoln Elementary School
321 8th Street, Cedar Falls, IA 50613 · (319) 553-2950 · Black Hawk County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL416 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
188 students
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 41%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 33% smaller than its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 48% · 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
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
81.0%
IA avg 73.6% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
78.8%
IA avg 70.9% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 78.8% |
| 2023-24 | 79.4% | 78.5% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.3%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 69% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 10 points, placing it in Iowa's top 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 Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School's state test result (78.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary School this school | 416 | 45.2% | 78.9% |
| Irving Elementary School Dubuque | 409 | 45.2% | 72.2% |
| Lambert Elementary School Manchester | 449 | 47.4% | 74.7% |
| Eagle Heights Elementary School Clinton | 443 | 47.2% | 73.1% |
| Thomas Jefferson Elementary School Newton | 380 | 45.0% | 75.0% |
| Wilkins Elementary School Marion | 348 | 41.1% | 69.1% |
Matched among Iowa 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 Lincoln Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Iowa | In Black Hawk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.9% | #153 of 564 | #6 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #247 of 564 ▼ 12 | #10 of 21 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #132 of 564 ▼ 15 | #7 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 416 | #199 of 705 | #15 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #177 of 561 | #8 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.2% | #296 of 561 | #15 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.2% | #281 of 666 | #13 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.0% | #38 of 359 | #3 of 13 |
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
416
0 (0%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 457
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 416 | 32.9 | 12.7:1 | 45% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 448 | 33.2 | 13.5:1 | 49% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 32.8 | 13.8:1 | 45% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 416 | 30 | 13.9:1 | 39% (163) |
| 2017-18 | 578 | 40.3 | 14.3:1 | 27% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 584 | 40 | 14.6:1 | 28% (162) |
| 2010-11 | 477 | 32 | 14.9:1 | 29% (140) |
| 2000-01 | 390 | 26 | 15.0:1 | 25% (96) |
| 1990-91 | 457 | 21 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (578 to 416); teachers down 18% (40.3 to 32.9).
About Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School is a public mid-sized elementary school in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Federal data show 416 students enrolled in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Iowa average about 325 students, which makes this school 28% above average.
Cedar Falls Comm School District has a total of 10 schools and 5,853 students, Lincoln Elementary School among them.
The largest group at Lincoln Elementary School is White students, at 79%. Other students are 8% multiracial, 6% Black, and 5% Hispanic. Black Hawk County residents are about 80% White, a similar share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 36%.
Lincoln Elementary School has 32.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 12.7:1. The school's 12.7:1 compares with an average of 13.7:1 for elementary schools in Iowa. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 45%.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 69.3% for Lincoln Elementary School, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 78.9%. The 9.6-point gap ranks in the top 10% of Iowa schools.
The county, Black Hawk County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $66,417 a year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Lincoln Elementary School, Black Hawk County has 35 public schools.
Helen A Hansen Elementary School, about 1.0 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Lincoln Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Lincoln Elementary School places 6th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Federal data place Lincoln Elementary School in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 416 in 2020-21, 416 in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 12.7 students per teacher, compared with 13.9 in 2020-21.
On allk12, people connected to Lincoln Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Black Hawk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
131,049
Census ACS
Median income
$66,417
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
35
18,224 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cedar Falls Comm School District
- Cedar Falls High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Peet Junior High SchoolMiddle · 695 students
- Holmes Junior High SchoolMiddle · 628 students
- Helen A Hansen Elementary SchoolElementary · 569 students
- Southdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 539 students
- Bess Streeter Aldrich ElementaryElementary · 472 students
Other schools in Cedar Falls
- Cedar Falls High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Peet Junior High SchoolMiddle · 695 students
- Holmes Junior High SchoolMiddle · 628 students
- Helen A Hansen Elementary SchoolElementary · 569 students
- Southdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 539 students
- Bess Streeter Aldrich ElementaryElementary · 472 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary School is the 65th largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolWaterloo, IA · 463 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolSpencer, IA · 442 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolOsage, IA · 405 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolCharles City, IA · 280 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolDubuque, IA · 257 students
Nearby schools
- Helen A Hansen Elementary School1.0 mi · 569
- Holmes Junior High School1.1 mi · 628
- Peet Junior High School1.3 mi · 695
- North Cedar Elementary School1.9 mi · 292
- Cedar Falls High School1.9 mi · 1,333
- Cedar Heights Elementary School1.9 mi · 451
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 416 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Lincoln Elementary School serve?
Lincoln Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Lincoln Elementary School have?
Lincoln Elementary School employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Lincoln Elementary School?
Student demographics at Lincoln Elementary School are roughly 79% White, 5% Hispanic, 6% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Lincoln Elementary School public or private?
Lincoln Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cedar Falls Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.