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Enrollment
515
Elementary
DISTRICT 450 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH-WESTERN CITY·NCES 390448001671
Prairie Lincoln Elementary School
4900 Amesbury Way, Columbus, OH 43228 · (614) 801-8300 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL515 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of Ohio public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.4:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
406 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 104 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 107 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 108 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 14% larger than its 4th grade class (91).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
38.9%
OH avg 59.8% . +5.6pp since 2021
Math
49.9%
OH avg 56.1% . +23.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 23 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.9% | 49.9% |
| 2023-24 | 44.8% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | 29.2% | 34.4% |
| 2021-22 | 33.3% | 26.6% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
42.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.0%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Prairie Lincoln Elementary School
Prairie Lincoln Elementary School's state test result (42.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Lincoln Elementary School this school | 515 | 78.8% | 42.4% |
| Prairie Norton Elementary School Columbus | 510 | 76.7% | 51.2% |
| Fairfield Central Elementary School Fairfield | 756 | 81.0% | 61.0% |
| Darby Woods Elementary School Galloway | 554 | 72.2% | 59.2% |
| Stiles Elementary School Columbus | 511 | 88.6% | 32.4% |
| Global Ambassadors Language Academy Cleveland | 279 | 71.0% | 51.7% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Prairie Lincoln Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.4% | #671 of 673 | #80 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.9% | #1,083 of 1,569 ▲ 126 | #97 of 199 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #1,268 of 1,569 ▼ 48 | #133 of 199 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +14.4pp | #107 of 1,514 | #20 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 515 | #438 of 1,808 | #47 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #1,188 of 1,582 | #126 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.3% | #95 of 1,590 | #28 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.8% | #30 of 767 | #5 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #385 of 992 | #69 of 135 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
515
-44 (-8%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 674
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 23.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 515 | 26.5 | 19.4:1 | 79% (406) |
| 2023-24 | 521 | 26.5 | 19.7:1 | 84% (438) |
| 2022-23 | 529 | 27 | 19.6:1 | 77% (409) |
| 2020-21 | 559 | 24 | 23.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 613 | 28 | 21.9:1 | 73% (448) |
| 2015-16 | 529 | 23 | 23.0:1 | 69% (364) |
| 2010-11 | 533 | 24 | 22.2:1 | 59% (314) |
| 2000-01 | 595 | 29 | 20.5:1 | 45% (265) |
| 1990-91 | 674 | 29 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (613 to 515); teachers down 5% (28 to 26.5).
About Prairie Lincoln Elementary School
Prairie Lincoln Elementary School is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Columbus, Ohio. The school has 515 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 4. That compares with an average of about 404 students for elementary schools in Ohio.
Prairie Lincoln Elementary School belongs to South-Western City, a district of 33 schools and 21,873 students.
The largest group at Prairie Lincoln Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 40%. Smaller groups are 33% White, 16% Black, 9% multiracial, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Franklin County is roughly 8% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Prairie Lincoln Elementary School scores 70%.
Prairie Lincoln Elementary School lists 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 19.4 students per teacher. The school's 19.4:1 compares with an average of 17.9:1 for elementary schools in Ohio. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 79% of the student body. That rate is above the 41% average among public schools in Franklin County.
Among Ohio public elementary schools, Prairie Lincoln Elementary School outscored 20%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Prairie Lincoln Elementary School ranks in the bottom 10% of Ohio schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 42.4%. Predicted: 59.0%. Difference: 16.7 points.
The county, Franklin County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $75,176, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 402 public schools and about 195,359 students.
A public school about 0.7 miles away, Prairie Norton Elementary School, is the closest to Prairie Lincoln Elementary School. Prairie Lincoln Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 46.2%, higher than Prairie Lincoln Elementary School's 42.4%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 559 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 515 by 2024-25. The number of students per teacher dropped from 23.3 to 19.4 over 4 years.
On allk12, people connected to Prairie Lincoln Elementary School can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,333,048
Census ACS
Median income
$75,176
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
402
195,359 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South-Western City
- Grove City High SchoolHigh · 1,881 students
- Westland High SchoolHigh · 1,853 students
- Central Crossing High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Franklin Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- Buckeye Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 742 students
- Holt Crossing Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 733 students
Other schools in Columbus
- KIPP ColumbusCombined · 1,945 students
- Worthington Kilbourne High SchoolHigh · 1,623 students
- Great River Connections AcademyCombined · 1,608 students
- Franklin Heights High SchoolHigh · 1,398 students
- Northland High SchoolHigh · 1,029 students
- Hamilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,028 students
Nearby schools
- Prairie Norton Elementary School0.7 mi · 510
- Stiles Elementary School0.8 mi · 511
- Stiles Family Center0.8 mi · 30
- Norton Middle School0.9 mi · 583
- Galloway Ridge Intermediate School1.0 mi · 705
- Darby Woods Elementary School1.1 mi · 554
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Lincoln Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Prairie Lincoln Elementary School?
Prairie Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 515 students in grades KG-04.
Is Prairie Lincoln Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Prairie Lincoln Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Prairie Lincoln Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Prairie Lincoln Elementary School is approximately 19.4:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Prairie Lincoln Elementary School?
Student demographics at Prairie Lincoln Elementary School are roughly 33% White, 40% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Prairie Lincoln Elementary School public or private?
Prairie Lincoln Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by South-Western City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.