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Lincoln Park Elementary School
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Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Michigan 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 Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lincoln Park Elementary School
Lincoln Park Elementary School is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in MUSKEGON, Michigan, overseen by Mona Shores Public School District, with 411 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Lincoln Park Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by Mona Shores Public School District, a district that teaches 3,927 students overall.
On demographics, Lincoln Park Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 9% Black, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Muskegon County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Lincoln Park Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Muskegon County (around 59%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln Park Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of -0.7 points.
In the area at large, Muskegon County reports that median household income runs about $65,024, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Lincoln Park Elementary School is one of 71 public schools in Muskegon County (combined enrollment of about 25,245 students).
Nearest neighbor: Muskegon Montessori Academy for Environmental Change, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Park Elementary School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Lincoln Park Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 470 (now 411). Class-load math has tightened: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.
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