Lincoln High School

Lincoln High School is a secondary school of large scale in Gahanna, Ohio, part of Gahanna-Jefferson City, hosting 2,468 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 337% above the state mean of about 565.

Gahanna-Jefferson City comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 8,290 students; Lincoln High School is among them.

On demographics, Lincoln High School reports that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 34% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.0%; this one delivers 66.8%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Franklin County put median household income runs about $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Lincoln High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Gahanna Lincoln High School - OLS, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 70.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln High School has grew 7%, going from 2,299 students in 2018 to 2,468 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged up from 23% to 34% over that span.

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