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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Lincoln Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
356
Elementary
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW BRUNSWICK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341122003460
Lincoln Elementary School
66 BARTLETT STREET, NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ 08901 · (732) 745-5300 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL356 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
8.4:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.7:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
332 students
DISTRICT 92% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 60 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 67% larger than its 5th grade class (36).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · 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
19.2%
NJ avg 53.1% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
21.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . +11.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.2% | 21.8% |
| 2023-24 | 16.8% | 10.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
15.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
15.1%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 15% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 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 Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School's state test result (15.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary School this school | 356 | 93.3% | 15.1% |
| Livingston Elementary School NEW BRUNSWICK | 342 | 93.3% | 11.4% |
| Ella G Clarke Elementary School LAKEWOOD | 314 | 94.3% | 28.7% |
| Piner Elementary School Lakewood | 364 | 92.6% | N/A |
| Theodore Roosevelt School No. 10 Passaic | 369 | 100.0% | 11.0% |
| Clifton Ave Grade School LAKEWOOD | 331 | 91.8% | 26.1% |
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 Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.1% | #1,198 of 1,290 | #108 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #1,121 of 1,319 ▲ 121 | #100 of 111 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #1,233 of 1,319 ▲ 13 | #108 of 111 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 356 | #873 of 1,562 | #84 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.4:1 | #68 of 1,390 | #7 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.6% | #1,378 of 1,392 | #118 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.3% | #29 of 1,481 | #6 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.2% | #26 of 798 | #3 of 84 |
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
356
-275 (-44%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 352
Student : Teacher
8.4:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 356 | 42.5 | 8.4:1 | 93% (332) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 51 | 7.7:1 | 68% (267) |
| 2022-23 | 578 | 58 | 10.0:1 | 80% (463) |
| 2020-21 | 631 | 51 | 12.4:1 | 97% (612) |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 45.4 | 12.7:1 | 59% (337) |
| 2015-16 | 681 | 51 | 13.3:1 | 59% (404) |
| 2010-11 | 526 | 35 | 15.0:1 | 67% (354) |
| 2000-01 | 704 | 48 | 14.7:1 | 73% (512) |
| 1990-91 | 352 | 24 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 38% (576 to 356); teachers down 6% (45.4 to 42.5).
About Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 356 students.
New Brunswick School District (13 schools, 8,337 students) runs Lincoln Elementary School.
Of every 100 students at Lincoln Elementary School, about 96 are Hispanic. The remaining students are 3% Black. Census figures show Middlesex County is about 24% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 8, compared with 70 nationally.
Lincoln Elementary School reports a ratio of 8.4 students per teacher, from 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 11.4:1. Lunch program data show 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 51 points above the 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County.
On the allk12 Grade, Lincoln Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 15% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Lincoln Elementary School, the prediction is 15.1% and the result is 15.1%.
Census data for Middlesex County show the median household earns about $111,549 a year, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Public schools in Middlesex County number 214, with about 129,255 students.
Roosevelt Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from Lincoln Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Lincoln Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 15.1% average proficiency ranks 6th among 8 nearby schools.
Lincoln Elementary School has an NCES locale of City: Small.
Federal counts for Lincoln Elementary School: 631 students in 2020-21, 356 in 2024-25. A gap this wide can follow a change in the grades offered. The ratio was 12.4:1 in 2020-21 and 8.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in New Brunswick School District
- New Brunswick High SchoolHigh · 2,443 students
- New Brunswick Middle SchoolMiddle · 829 students
- Blanquita B. Valenti Community SchoolElementary · 810 students
- A Chester Redshaw SchoolElementary · 678 students
- Paul Robeson Community School for the ArtsElementary · 624 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
Other schools in NEW BRUNSWICK
- New Brunswick High SchoolHigh · 2,443 students
- New Brunswick Middle SchoolMiddle · 829 students
- Blanquita B. Valenti Community SchoolElementary · 810 students
- A Chester Redshaw SchoolElementary · 678 students
- Paul Robeson Community School for the ArtsElementary · 624 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 597 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary School is the 97th largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolNORTH BERGEN, NJ · 1,193 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolEDISON, NJ · 946 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolBERGENFIELD, NJ · 443 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolNEWARK, NJ · 420 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolHASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ · 364 students
Nearby schools
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.7 mi · 597
- New Brunswick Adult High School0.8 mi · 85
- Blanquita B. Valenti Community School0.8 mi · 810
- Pine Grove Manor School1.0 mi · 346
- A Chester Redshaw School1.0 mi · 678
- Lord Stirling Community School1.0 mi · 436
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow large is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 356 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Lincoln Elementary School serve?
Lincoln Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lincoln Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lincoln Elementary School is approximately 8.4:1 (43 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 96% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School is overseen by New Brunswick School District in Middlesex County.
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