Enrollment
251
Elementary
DISTRICT 269 · STATE 369
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH HAVEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 263230006768
Lincoln School
500 ELKENBURG ST, SOUTH HAVEN, MI 49090 · (269) 637-0540 · Van Buren County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL251 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Michigan public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 15.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
169 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 55%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 63 | 25% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 30% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Based on grade levels within South Haven Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientEnglish Language Arts
44.6%
MI avg 47.7%
Math
54.7%
MI avg 44.8%
What this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
49.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.5%
based on MI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Michigan 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 13 points, placing it in Michigan'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 School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln School this school | 251 | 67.3% | 49.6% |
| North Shore Elementary SOUTH HAVEN | 255 | 67.5% | 34.2% |
| Knudsen Elementary School WATERFORD | 278 | 64.4% | 36.5% |
| Traverse Heights Elem School TRAVERSE CITY | 245 | 73.1% | N/A |
| Riverside Elementary School WATERFORD | 291 | 64.9% | N/A |
| Barhitte Elementary School BURTON | 309 | 72.2% | N/A |
Matched among Michigan 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 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Michigan | In Van Buren County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #427 of 1,085 | #2 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #335 of 1,072 | #2 of 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #649 of 1,139 | #6 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 251 | #1,277 of 1,630 | #12 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #211 of 1,424 | #3 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.9% | #356 of 1,424 | #2 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.3% | #556 of 1,563 | #7 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.6% | #922 of 979 | #13 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
251
+42 (+20%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 492
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 251 | 18.5 | 13.6:1 | 67% (169) |
| 2023-24 | 227 | 17.5 | 13.0:1 | 74% (167) |
| 2022-23 | 234 | 18 | 13.0:1 | 72% (169) |
| 2020-21 | 209 | 16 | 13.1:1 | 80% (167) |
| 2017-18 | 255 | 17.2 | 14.8:1 | 69% (177) |
| 2015-16 | 288 | 17 | 16.9:1 | 58% (168) |
| 2010-11 | 267 | 18 | 14.8:1 | 70% (188) |
| 2000-01 | 398 | 27 | 14.7:1 | 54% (215) |
| 1990-91 | 492 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (255 to 251); teachers up 8% (17.2 to 18.5).
About Lincoln School
Families in SOUTH HAVEN, Michigan, are served by Lincoln School, a small elementary school. The school runs pre-K through 3 and enrolls 251 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Michigan enroll about 369 students on average.
Lincoln School is one school in South Haven Public Schools, a system of 6 schools with 1,815 students.
More than half of the students at Lincoln School are White (63%). The remaining shares are 14% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, and 11% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Van Buren County's population at about 80%. The diversity index for Lincoln School is 56%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Lincoln School has 18.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.6:1. Elementary schools in Michigan average 15.8:1, 2.3 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 67% at Lincoln School. For comparison, public schools in Van Buren County average 52%.
Lincoln School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 75% of Michigan public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Lincoln School ranks in the top 10% in Michigan. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 49.6%, against a prediction of 36.5%.
Looking at the county, Van Buren County, median household income comes to about $68,114, about 23% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 45, with about 14,850 students.
The closest school to Lincoln School is South Haven High School, located about 0.2 miles away. In all, 5 other public schools sit within five miles of Lincoln School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Lincoln School is 1st of 4 on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Distant: in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment rose by 20% across 4 years, from 209 in 2020-21 to 251 in 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Lincoln School. You can also rate the school on this page.
Van Buren County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
75,795
Census ACS
Median income
$68,114
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
45
14,850 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Haven Public Schools
- South Haven High SchoolHigh · 588 students
- Baseline Middle SchoolMiddle · 377 students
- Maple Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 300 students
- North Shore ElementaryElementary · 255 students
- WAY South HavenHigh · 44 students
Other schools in SOUTH HAVEN
- South Haven High SchoolHigh · 588 students
- Baseline Middle SchoolMiddle · 377 students
- Maple Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 300 students
- North Shore ElementaryElementary · 255 students
- WAY South HavenHigh · 44 students
Other Lincoln schools
30 other US public schools in 11 states are named Lincoln. Lincoln School is the 22nd largest of the 31.
- Lincoln SchoolSAINT JOSEPH, MI · 423 students
- Lincoln SchoolSAULT SAINTE MARIE, MI · 342 students
- Lincoln SchoolPETOSKEY, MI · 237 students
- Lincoln SchoolGRAND RAPIDS, MI · 99 students
- Lincoln SchoolPeoria, IL · 823 students
Nearby schools
- South Haven High School0.2 mi · 588
- Maple Grove Elementary School1.8 mi · 300
- WAY South Haven2.0 mi · 44
- Baseline Middle School2.2 mi · 377
- North Shore Elementary2.5 mi · 255
- Covert Middle School7.1 mi · 79
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln SchoolHow large is Lincoln School?
Lincoln School enrolls approximately 251 students in grades PK-03.
What age range does Lincoln School serve?
Lincoln School serves students from grade PK through grade 03.
How many teachers does Lincoln School have?
Lincoln School employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Lincoln School?
Student demographics at Lincoln School are roughly 63% White, 11% Hispanic, 11% Black, 0% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln School?
Lincoln School is overseen by South Haven Public Schools in Van Buren County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.