Lincoln High School

Located at 60 CRESCENT AVE, in JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Lincoln High School is a close-knit high school that works with 767 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Jersey City Public Schools.

Jersey City Public Schools comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 24,151 students; Lincoln High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lincoln High School logs that 56% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder is composed of 32% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Hudson County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lincoln High School has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lincoln High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.8%; this one delivers 11.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hudson County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Lincoln High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Julia A. Barnes School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 16%: 659 students in 2018 compared to 767 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 62% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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