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What tradition at Lincoln Community School #5 should never be changed?
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Enrollment
497
Elementary
DISTRICT 671 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAYONNE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340126002718
Lincoln Community School #5
208 PROSPECT AVENUE, BAYONNE, NJ 07002 · (201) 858-5973 · Hudson County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL497 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of New Jersey 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 New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
303 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 41%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 60 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 52 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 6% larger than its 8th grade class (52).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 71% · 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
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
68.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +6.5pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . +2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.5% | 44.2% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.8%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for New Jersey 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 17 points, placing it in New Jersey'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 Community School #5
Lincoln Community School #5's state test result (50.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Community School #5 this school | 497 | 61.0% | 50.1% |
| Reeds Road Elementary School GALLOWAY | 493 | 53.5% | 32.2% |
| Nicholas Oresko Community School BAYONNE | 388 | 62.9% | 44.5% |
| Roland Rogers Elementary School GALLOWAY | 578 | 61.2% | 31.6% |
| Somerdale Park School SOMERDALE | 447 | 55.5% | 34.3% |
| Maude M. Wilkins Elementary School MAPLE SHADE | 554 | 57.4% | 23.9% |
Matched among New Jersey 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 Community School #5 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Hudson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.1% | #521 of 1,290 | #14 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #644 of 1,319 ▲ 25 | #19 of 84 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #310 of 1,319 ▲ 107 | #13 of 84 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 497 | #415 of 1,562 | #54 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #806 of 1,390 | #51 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.5% | #27 of 1,392 | #9 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.0% | #448 of 1,481 | #64 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.9% | #324 of 545 | #15 of 24 |
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
497
+44 (+10%) vs 2020
+54% since 1990-91, when it was 323
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 10.1:1
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 | 497 | 42.5 | 11.7:1 | 61% (303) |
| 2023-24 | 485 | 45 | 10.8:1 | 55% (265) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | 46 | 10.5:1 | 54% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 453 | 45 | 10.1:1 | 44% (199) |
| 2017-18 | 465 | 37 | 12.6:1 | 54% (253) |
| 2015-16 | 481 | 43 | 11.2:1 | 58% (277) |
| 2010-11 | 423 | 37 | 11.4:1 | 59% (251) |
| 2000-01 | 409 | 32 | 12.8:1 | 47% (191) |
| 1990-91 | 323 | 16 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Community School #5.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (465 to 497); teachers up 15% (37 to 42.5).
About Lincoln Community School #5
Lincoln Community School #5 is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in BAYONNE, New Jersey. The school serves pre-K through 8. Enrollment is 497 students. It has 23% more students than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey (about 405).
Bayonne School District (13 schools, 10,325 students) runs Lincoln Community School #5.
No group is above 50% at Lincoln Community School #5; the largest is White, at 35%. Other reported shares: 29% Hispanic, 18% Black, 14% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Among Hudson County residents, the White share is about 32%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lincoln Community School #5 scores 75%.
On staff are 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.7:1. It is about the same as the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. About 61% of students at Lincoln Community School #5 are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Lincoln Community School #5 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 76% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Lincoln Community School #5 is 32.8%. It actually posts 50.1%, which is 17.3 points higher and in the top 10% of New Jersey schools.
For Hudson County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $91,795 a year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Hudson County number 130, with about 86,216 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Nicholas Oresko Community School, is about 0.3 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Lincoln Community School #5 ranks 1st of 8 on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies Lincoln Community School #5's location as Suburb: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 10%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 10.1:1 in 2020-21, and 11.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Hudson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
718,323
Census ACS
Median income
$91,795
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
130
86,216 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bayonne School District
- Bayonne High SchoolHigh · 2,830 students
- William Shemin Midtown Community School #8Elementary · 1,203 students
- Walter F. Robinson Community SchoolElementary · 924 students
- Woodrow Wilson Community SchoolElementary · 740 students
- Horace Mann Community SchoolElementary · 712 students
- Washington Community School #9Elementary · 691 students
Other schools in BAYONNE
- Bayonne High SchoolHigh · 2,830 students
- William Shemin Midtown Community School #8Elementary · 1,203 students
- Walter F. Robinson Community SchoolElementary · 924 students
- Woodrow Wilson Community SchoolElementary · 740 students
- Horace Mann Community SchoolElementary · 712 students
- Washington Community School #9Elementary · 691 students
Nearby schools
- Nicholas Oresko Community School0.3 mi · 388
- Philip G. Vroom Community School0.3 mi · 433
- Walter F. Robinson Community School0.5 mi · 924
- Horace Mann Community School0.6 mi · 712
- Bayonne Alternative High School0.7 mi · 109
- Bayonne High School0.7 mi · 2,830
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Community School #5How large is Lincoln Community School #5?
Lincoln Community School #5 enrolls approximately 497 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Lincoln Community School #5 serve?
Lincoln Community School #5 serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Lincoln Community School #5?
Approximately 11.7:1 students per teacher at Lincoln Community School #5.
How diverse is Lincoln Community School #5?
Lincoln Community School #5 reports a student body of 35% White, 29% Hispanic, 18% Black, 14% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln Community School #5?
Lincoln Community School #5 is overseen by Bayonne School District in Hudson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.