Lincoln Elementary School

Lincoln Elementary School is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in Wadsworth, Ohio, overseen by Wadsworth City, with 195 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 404.

Lincoln Elementary School is one of 10 schools operated by Wadsworth City, a district that instructs 4,275 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lincoln Elementary School lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 49% of students at Lincoln Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Medina County's rate of about 26%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.4%, the actual is 66.8%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Medina County put the typical household earns roughly $94,968 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Medina County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,243 students), of which Lincoln Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Central Intermediate School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lincoln Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 80.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 25%: 261 students in 2018 compared to 195 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 91% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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