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Enrollment
2,210
High
DISTRICT 1,024 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21·NCES 360015201906
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL
2800 OCEAN PKWY, BROOKLYN, NY 11235 · (718) 333-7400 · Kings County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,210 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 York public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
135 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
1,848 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 651 | 29% |
| Grade 10 | 560 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 460 | 21% |
| Grade 12 | 535 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 72% · 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
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
73.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -11.0pp since 2023
Math
34.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 84.0% | 37.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. 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
51.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for New York 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 York'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 ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (51.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL this school | 2,210 | 83.6% | 51.7% |
| CURTIS HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 2,439 | 80.0% | 52.7% |
| HILLCREST HIGH SCHOOL JAMAICA | 2,298 | 85.9% | 45.0% |
| JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL OZONE PARK | 2,400 | 84.0% | 58.5% |
| HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 1,483 | 81.4% | 24.7% |
| PORT RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 1,696 | 82.6% | 40.5% |
Matched among New York high 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 ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #713 of 1,135 | #45 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #823 of 1,109 ▼ 27 | #70 of 132 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #530 of 1,135 ▼ 120 | #32 of 137 ▼ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,210 | #40 of 1,216 | #8 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #1,030 of 1,058 | #108 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.2% | #37 of 1,070 | #6 of 115 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.6% | #375 of 1,167 | #96 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.6% | #105 of 339 | #26 of 53 |
Ranked against other public high 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
2,210
+394 (+22%) vs 2020
-16% since 2010-11, when it was 2,626
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 17.8:1
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 | 2,210 | 135.5 | 16.3:1 | 84% (1,848) |
| 2023-24 | 2,163 | 126.1 | 17.2:1 | 82% (1,766) |
| 2022-23 | 2,129 | 125.3 | 17.0:1 | 81% (1,728) |
| 2020-21 | 1,816 | 102 | 17.8:1 | 82% (1,481) |
| 2017-18 | 1,946 | 117 | 16.6:1 | 79% (1,530) |
| 2015-16 | 2,114 | 113 | 18.7:1 | 68% (1,438) |
| 2010-11 | 2,626 | 119 | 22.1:1 | 60% (1,565) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL.
About ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school with its address in BROOKLYN, New York. The school's 2,210 students are in grades 9 through 12. Statewide, high schools in New York average about 668 students each.
NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21 (40 schools, 33,610 students) runs ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and Black students are the largest at 34%. Other students are 32% Hispanic, 15% Asian, and 14% White. ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL has a diversity index of 73%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 135.5 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 16.3:1. The average ratio among high schools in New York is 11.0:1, lower than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 84% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Measured against New York public high schools, ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 51.7% and a predicted 44.2%.
Within Kings County, median household income is about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Kings County number 583 and enroll about 291,697.
RACHEL CARSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR COASTAL STUDIES is located about 0.2 miles from ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL went from 1,816 students to 2,210. Its ratio of students to teachers was 17.8:1 in 2020-21, and 16.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
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- IS 228 DAVID A BOODYMiddle · 1,555 students
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- IS 281 JOSEPH B CAVALLAROMiddle · 1,198 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Other Abraham Lincoln High schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Abraham Lincoln High. ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is the largest of the 4.
- Abraham Lincoln HighSan Jose, CA · 1,590 students
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolCouncil Bluffs, IA · 1,333 students
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolDENVER, CO · 965 students
Nearby schools
- RACHEL CARSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR COASTAL STUDIES0.2 mi · 619
- IS 303 HERBERT S EISENBERG0.2 mi · 416
- CONEY ISLAND PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,336
- WILLIAM E GRADY CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 646
- PS 3700.3 mi · 230
- PS 100 CONEY ISLAND SCHOOL (THE)0.4 mi · 577
Frequently asked questions
About ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,210 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL serve?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL have?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL employs 135 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
How diverse is ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 14% White, 32% Hispanic, 34% Black, 15% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #21.
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