Lincoln Trail Elementary School

Lincoln Trail Elementary School operates as a roomy K-5 school in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, operated by Hardin County. Current enrollment sits at 653 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 55% larger than the state mean of about 421.

Lincoln Trail Elementary School is one of 26 schools operated by Hardin County, a district that teaches 14,583 students overall.

Demographically, Lincoln Trail Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest is composed of 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Hardin County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hardin County (around 51%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Lincoln Trail Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.9%; this one delivers 55.3%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hardin County shows median household income runs about $67,647, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Hardin County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,037 students), of which Lincoln Trail Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Spectrum Care Academy, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincoln Trail Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.2%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln Trail Elementary School has expanded 33%, going from 490 students in 2018 to 653 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 2% to 7%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.