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Which teacher or staff member at Lincoln Park Middle School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
1,089
Middle
DISTRICT 441 · STATE 502
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINCOLN PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF·NCES 262160001186
Lincoln Park Middle School
2800 LAFAYETTE BLVD, LINCOLN PARK, MI 48146 · (313) 389-0757 · Wayne County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,089 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of Michigan public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Michigan public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
982 students
DISTRICT 85% · STATE 55%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 386 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 346 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 357 | 33% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 56% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lincoln Park Middle School→Lincoln Park High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Lincoln Park School District of the City of. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
27.1%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
12.5%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
Source: M-STEP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.3%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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%.
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 Park Middle School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Park Middle School this school | 1,089 | 90.2% | 20.9% |
| Wyoming Junior High School WYOMING | 584 | 86.1% | N/A |
| Wyoming Intermediate WYOMING | 579 | 86.5% | N/A |
| Kelloggsville Middle School GRAND RAPIDS | 475 | 82.3% | N/A |
| Godwin Heights Middle School GRAND RAPIDS | 382 | 94.8% | N/A |
| Pontiac Middle School PONTIAC | 790 | 71.1% | N/A |
Matched among Michigan middle 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 Park Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #393 of 397 | #45 of 47 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.5% | #379 of 380 | #42 of 42 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #352 of 377 | #37 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,089 | #3 of 491 | #2 of 68 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #216 of 436 | #31 of 62 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #43 of 437 | #2 of 62 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.2% | #28 of 477 | #10 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.7% | #49 of 101 | #5 of 10 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,089
-24 (-2%) vs 2020
+29% since 2000-01, when it was 841
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 18.9:1
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 | 1,089 | 62.3 | 17.5:1 | 90% (982) |
| 2023-24 | 1,060 | 62.5 | 17.0:1 | 91% (967) |
| 2022-23 | 1,105 | 62.9 | 17.6:1 | 86% (945) |
| 2020-21 | 1,113 | 59 | 18.9:1 | 79% (876) |
| 2017-18 | 1,021 | 58.1 | 17.6:1 | 86% (883) |
| 2015-16 | 1,046 | 53 | 19.7:1 | 77% (803) |
| 2010-11 | 692 | 42 | 16.5:1 | 73% (506) |
| 2000-01 | 841 | 44 | 19.1:1 | 33% (278) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Park Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (1,021 to 1,089); teachers up 7% (58.1 to 62.3).
About Lincoln Park Middle School
The public middle school Lincoln Park Middle School is located in LINCOLN PARK, Michigan. There are 1,089 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 117% bigger than the 502-student average for middle schools in Michigan.
Lincoln Park School District of the City of oversees Lincoln Park Middle School and 10 other schools, with 4,846 students in total.
Of every 100 students at Lincoln Park Middle School, about 50 are Hispanic. It is also 26% White, 17% Black, and 5% multiracial. Wayne County's residents are about 7% Hispanic, 43 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
Lincoln Park Middle School has 62.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 17.5:1. The ratio is within a point of the 17.5:1 average for middle schools in Michigan. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 90%. On average, public schools in Wayne County report 66%.
Among Michigan public middle schools, Lincoln Park Middle School outscored 13%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 26.3% for Lincoln Park Middle School. The school posts 20.9%, 5.4 points below the prediction.
In Wayne County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $60,539, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 16% of residents are in poverty. There are 573 public schools in the county, enrolling about 259,786, Lincoln Park Middle School among them.
Lincoln Park Middle School's nearest public school is Lincoln Park High School (about 0.2 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Lincoln Park Middle School places 6th out of 6 schools in its immediate area.
Federal data place Lincoln Park Middle School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 1,113 to 1,089. Students per teacher dropped from 18.9 in 2020-21 to 17.5 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Lincoln Park Middle School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,772,259
Census ACS
Median income
$60,539
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
16%
Below federal line
Schools in county
573
259,786 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lincoln Park School District of the City of
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 1,384 students
- Lafayette SchoolElementary · 441 students
- Keppen SchoolElementary · 332 students
- Earl F Carr SchoolElementary · 311 students
- James Foote SchoolElementary · 308 students
- Max Paun SchoolElementary · 292 students
Other schools in LINCOLN PARK
- Lincoln Park High SchoolHigh · 1,384 students
- Lafayette SchoolElementary · 441 students
- Keppen SchoolElementary · 332 students
- Earl F Carr SchoolElementary · 311 students
- James Foote SchoolElementary · 308 students
- Max Paun SchoolElementary · 292 students
Other Lincoln Park Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Lincoln Park Middle. Lincoln Park Middle School is the largest of the 3.
- LINCOLN PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLDULUTH, MN · 606 students
- Lincoln Park Middle SchoolLINCOLN PARK, NJ · 368 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Park High School0.2 mi · 1,384
- James Foote School0.5 mi · 308
- Max Paun School0.6 mi · 292
- Allen Park Middle School0.9 mi · 896
- Keppen School1.0 mi · 332
- Hoover School1.0 mi · 287
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Park Middle SchoolHow large is Lincoln Park Middle School?
Lincoln Park Middle School enrolls approximately 1,089 students in grades 06-08.
Is Lincoln Park Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lincoln Park Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Lincoln Park Middle School?
Approximately 17.5:1 students per teacher at Lincoln Park Middle School.
How diverse is Lincoln Park Middle School?
Lincoln Park Middle School reports a student body of 26% White, 50% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Lincoln Park Middle School in?
Lincoln Park Middle School is part of Lincoln Park School District of the City of.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.