LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL

LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in SYRACUSE, New York, overseen by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 476 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 31 schools operated by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 18,608 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 19% White, 12% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Onondaga County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Onondaga County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.7%; LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 22.4%, -20.3 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Onondaga County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Onondaga County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SALEM HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 25.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 499 students in 2018 compared to 476 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 24% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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