Lincoln Community School #5

Set in BAYONNE, New Jersey, Lincoln Community School #5 is a moderately sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Bayonne School District. It works with 497 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 405.

Lincoln Community School #5 is one of 13 schools operated by Bayonne School District, a district that works with 10,325 students overall.

On demographics, Lincoln Community School #5 records that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 29% Hispanic, 18% Black, 14% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 61% of students at Lincoln Community School #5 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lincoln Community School #5 sits in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 32.8%; actual is 50.1%, +17.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, Hudson County reports that median household income runs about $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lincoln Community School #5 is one of 130 public schools in Hudson County (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students).

Nicholas Oresko Community School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Community School #5. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincoln Community School #5 ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 38.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 7%: 465 students in 2018 compared to 497 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 42% to 29%.

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