Lincoln Elementary

Lincoln Elementary operates as a sizable K-5 school in Leland, North Carolina, operated by Brunswick County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 738 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 467 students per school, that is 58% bigger than typical.

Lincoln Elementary is one of 20 schools operated by Brunswick County Schools, a district that educates 13,561 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 18% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lincoln Elementary has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.9:1, putting Lincoln Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Lincoln Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 48.7%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Brunswick County) records that median household income runs about $77,024, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Brunswick County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,069 students), Lincoln Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: North Brunswick High, around 1.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln Elementary has expanded 18%, going from 628 students in 2018 to 738 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 35% across the same window.

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