Lincoln Academy

Located at 1016 Lincoln Street, in Greensboro, North Carolina, Lincoln Academy is a mid-sized middle school that educates 696 students (grades 4 through 8), part of Guilford County Schools.

Guilford County Schools comprises 123 schools with combined enrollment of 68,535 students; Lincoln Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln Academy shows that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 18% White, 17% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Guilford County as a whole is about 34% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lincoln Academy has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Lincoln Academy higher than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Guilford County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lincoln Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 64.4%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Guilford County shows median household earnings sit near $68,642, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Guilford County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students), Lincoln Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is James B Dudley High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Academy. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Academy comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 665 students in 2018 compared to 696 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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