LINCOLN SCHOOL

LINCOLN SCHOOL, a mid-tier primary school in MOUNT VERNON, New York, run under MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 470 students, covering grades K through 8.

Across the 16 schools in MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT (6,654 students total), LINCOLN SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, LINCOLN SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Black (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 43% Hispanic, 10% White. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at LINCOLN SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LINCOLN SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), LINCOLN SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is INTELLECTUS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LINCOLN SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.6%.

LINCOLN SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. LINCOLN SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 27% since 2018, when it stood at 646 (now 470). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 34% to 43%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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