Lincoln Heights Elem School

Lincoln Heights Elem School, a reasonably sized elementary-level community in GREENVILLE, Michigan, overseen by Greenville Public Schools, hosts 398 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Lincoln Heights Elem School is one of 7 schools operated by Greenville Public Schools, a district that instructs 3,346 students overall.

Demographically, Lincoln Heights Elem School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Lincoln Heights Elem School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln Heights Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of +6.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kent County) logs that median household income runs about $82,631, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Lincoln Heights Elem School is one of 239 public schools in Kent County (combined enrollment of about 97,253 students).

Satterlee School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Heights Elem School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Lincoln Heights Elem School's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 398). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.