LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SCHENECTADY, New York, LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary school, one of the schools within SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 306 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 8,948 students; LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 25%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 24% Asian, 13% multiracial, 10% White. By comparison, Schenectady County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Schenectady County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 44.2%; actual is 17.1%, a gap of -27.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Schenectady County) records that the typical household earns roughly $79,623 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Schenectady County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students), LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WILLIAM C KEANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 345 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 34% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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