Lincoln School

Lincoln School is one of the reasonably sized middle schools in FAIRVIEW, New Jersey, run under Fairview Public School District, with 635 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 8.

Fairview Public School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,535 students; Lincoln School is among them.

Demographically, Lincoln School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). The remainder breaks down as 7% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bergen County (around 28%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lincoln School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.5%, the actual is 19.6%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bergen County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,884, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Lincoln School is one of 291 public schools in Bergen County (combined enrollment of about 133,883 students).

Lincoln School Annex is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lincoln School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lincoln School's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 667 (now 635). Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 92% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.