SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL

SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary school in ROCHESTER, New York, overseen by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 522 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Within ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 51 schools and 25,949 students, SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL records that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% White, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.4%; this one comes in at 14.5%, -29.0 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Monroe County shows median household income runs about $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

Nearest neighbor: DR. FREDDIE THOMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL 22-LINCOLN SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 20.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 625 students in 2018 compared to 522 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 38% to 28% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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