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What's the biggest difference between LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
476
Middle
DISTRICT 377 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362859003868
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL
1613 JAMES ST, SYRACUSE, NY 13203 · (315) 435-4450 · Onondaga County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL476 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of New York public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
418 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 128 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 175 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 173 | 36% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
18.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
15.4%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.0% | 15.4% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 11.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
22.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (22.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 476 | 87.8% | 22.4% |
| ANDRIES HUDDE BROOKLYN | 389 | 92.5% | 38.1% |
| GASKILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL NIAGARA FALLS | 447 | 79.4% | 35.7% |
| GRANT MIDDLE SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 612 | 84.0% | 26.5% |
| IS 192 LINDEN (THE) SAINT ALBANS | 355 | 83.9% | 34.6% |
| ANDREW A LANGSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 314 | 93.6% | N/A |
Matched among New York middle 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 LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Onondaga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #750 of 766 | #21 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.4% | #756 of 768 ▲ 4 | #21 of 24 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #755 of 768 no change | #21 of 24 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 476 | #369 of 796 | #13 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.5:1 | #199 of 683 | #7 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #64 of 688 | #2 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.8% | #163 of 773 | #4 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.6% | #435 of 524 | #12 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
476
-61 (-11%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 506
Student : Teacher
9.5:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 476 | 50.2 | 9.5:1 | 88% (418) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 47.2 | 10.2:1 | 90% (435) |
| 2022-23 | 508 | 47.7 | 10.7:1 | 90% (456) |
| 2020-21 | 537 | 44 | 12.2:1 | 89% (476) |
| 2017-18 | 499 | 46 | 10.8:1 | 90% (448) |
| 2015-16 | 521 | 38 | 13.7:1 | 80% (418) |
| 2010-11 | 465 | 33 | 14.1:1 | 86% (401) |
| 2000-01 | 663 | 47 | 14.1:1 | 72% (478) |
| 1990-91 | 506 | 42 | 12.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school with a street address in SYRACUSE, New York. The school enrolls 476 students in grades 6 through 8.
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of a district of 31 schools: SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 18,608 students.
At LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL, Black students make up the biggest share, 49%. Other students are 19% White, 12% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 9% multiracial. By comparison, Onondaga County residents are about 11% Black. A diversity index of 70% means there is a 70% chance two randomly chosen students at LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
On staff are 50.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 9.5:1. The average for middle schools in New York is 10.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 88% of students at LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Onondaga County average 49%.
Among New York public middle schools, LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 1%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 22.4% against a 42.7% prediction, a bottom-10% result in New York.
For the population of Onondaga County, the median household earns about $76,945 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Onondaga County with 122 other public schools.
SALEM HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.3 miles from LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 25.7%, higher than LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL's 22.4%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 11%. By 2024-25, the school had 9.5 students per teacher, compared with 12.2 in 2020-21.
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Onondaga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
471,129
Census ACS
Median income
$76,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
67,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,483 students
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,350 students
- CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,338 students
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLERHigh · 1,126 students
- HUNTINGTON K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 934 students
- HURLBUT W SMITH K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 776 students
Other schools in SYRACUSE
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,483 students
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,350 students
- CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,338 students
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLERHigh · 1,126 students
- ONONDAGA-CORTLAND-MADISON BOCESCombined · 1,113 students
- SYRACUSE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 993 students
Other Lincoln Middle schools
32 other US public schools in 20 states are named Lincoln Middle. LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 21st largest of the 33.
- Lincoln MiddleAlameda, CA · 971 students
- Lincoln MiddleSanta Monica, CA · 914 students
- LINCOLN MIDDLERIO RANCHO, NM · 805 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolBerwyn, IL · 793 students
- Lincoln Middle SchoolMt Prospect, IL · 784 students
Nearby schools
- SALEM HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 466
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,483
- HUNTINGTON K-8 SCHOOL0.8 mi · 934
- DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 711
- WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 650
- FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 678
Frequently asked questions
About LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 476 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.5:1.
What is the student diversity at LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 19% White, 12% Hispanic, 49% Black, 10% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.