Lincoln Middle School

Set in Cottage Grove, Oregon, Lincoln Middle School is a medium-sized intermediate school, run under South Lane SD 45J3. It educates 455 students across grades 6 through 8.

South Lane SD 45J3 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 2,697 students. Lincoln Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Lincoln Middle School shows that 74% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lincoln Middle School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.3:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at Lincoln Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lane County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lincoln Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.9%; actual is 21.9%, a gap of -16.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lane County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,544 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Lincoln Middle School is one of 117 public schools in Lane County (combined enrollment of about 42,240 students).

Cottage Grove High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lincoln Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Lincoln Middle School's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 560 (now 455). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 85% to 74%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.