Lincoln Avenue Elementary School

Lincoln Avenue Elementary School operates as a large elementary school in ORANGE, New Jersey, one of the schools within ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District. Current enrollment sits at 728 students spanning grades pre-K through 7. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 80% above typical.

Within ORANGE BOARD OF EDUCATION School District, which oversees 12 schools and 5,527 students, Lincoln Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln Avenue Elementary School lists that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 44% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Lincoln Avenue Elementary School reports 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 72% of students at Lincoln Avenue Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lincoln Avenue Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.6%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Essex County's 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), Lincoln Avenue Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and Innovation, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Avenue Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.3%.

Lincoln Avenue Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lincoln Avenue Elementary School's enrollment has rose 3% since 2018, when it stood at 708 (now 728). Black enrollment moved from 56% to 44% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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