LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an intimate elementary-level community in NORFOLK, Nebraska, overseen by NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 220 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Within NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 11 schools and 4,543 students, LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Madison County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.2%; this one delivers 66.7%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Madison County put the typical household earns roughly $63,128 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 23 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 6,196 students).

The closest other public school is NORFOLK JR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 273 (now 220). Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 6% across the same window.

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