ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 2800 OCEAN PKWY, in BROOKLYN, New York, ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is a high-enrollment secondary school that educates 2,210 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL sits 231% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 40 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (33,610 students total), ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 34%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 32% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 14% White.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL has 135 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.2%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the area at large, Kings County reports that median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RACHEL CARSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR COASTAL STUDIES, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL has grew 14%, going from 1,946 students in 2018 to 2,210 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 22% to 32% over that span.

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