Enrollment
347
Elementary
DISTRICT 507 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ERIE CITY SD·NCES 420930002013
Lincoln Elementary School
831 E 31st St, Erie, PA 16504 · (814) 874-6685 · Erie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL347 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of Pennsylvania 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.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
337 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 24 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 59% · 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
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
22.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.2pp since 2023
Math
28.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.6% | 28.9% |
| 2023-24 | 26.8% | 27.4% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
30.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School's state test result (30.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary School this school | 347 | 97.1% | 30.0% |
| Evergreen Elementary School Monroeville | 317 | 95.6% | 76.1% |
| Ramsey Elementary School Monroeville | 335 | 94.9% | 58.7% |
| Diehl School Erie | 441 | 99.3% | 15.4% |
| University Park Elementary School Monroeville | 328 | 93.6% | 75.6% |
| Marian Anderson Neighborhood Academy Philadelphia | 338 | 91.4% | 47.1% |
Matched among Pennsylvania 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 Lincoln Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #1,173 of 1,396 | #23 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.9% | #1,173 of 1,511 ▼ 6 | #24 of 33 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.6% | #1,320 of 1,511 ▲ 2 | #25 of 33 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 347 | #1,073 of 1,638 | #28 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #92 of 1,528 | #1 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.9% | #66 of 1,531 | #6 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.1% | #499 of 1,600 | #16 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.4% | #548 of 1,045 | #10 of 24 |
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
347
-61 (-15%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 506
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 347 | 34.5 | 10.1:1 | 97% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 337 | 33 | 10.2:1 | 100% (337) |
| 2022-23 | 370 | 32 | 11.6:1 | 100% (370) |
| 2020-21 | 408 | 31 | 13.2:1 | 99% (405) |
| 2017-18 | 396 | 28.5 | 13.9:1 | 100% (396) |
| 2015-16 | 470 | 35 | 13.4:1 | 100% (470) |
| 2010-11 | 432 | 32 | 13.5:1 | 84% (361) |
| 2000-01 | 521 | 30 | 17.4:1 | 59% (309) |
| 1990-91 | 506 | 25 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (396 to 347); teachers up 21% (28.5 to 34.5).
About Lincoln Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary School is a small elementary school based in Erie, Pennsylvania. Federal data show 347 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll around 443, and this school is 22% below that mark.
A total of 15 schools make up Erie City SD, with 10,473 students enrolled.
About 39% of students at Lincoln Elementary School are White, the largest single group. The school is also 27% Black, 20% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 4% Hispanic. The White share of the county population is higher, at 83%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
Lincoln Elementary School reports a ratio of 10.1 students per teacher, from 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average ratio is 13.1:1. Lunch program data show 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 74% average for public schools in Erie County is 23 points.
On the allk12 Grade, Lincoln Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 19% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
A school with Lincoln Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Pennsylvania is predicted to score 36.0%. Lincoln Elementary School scores 30.0%, 6.0 points below that line.
For the population of Erie County, median household income comes to about $63,354, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Erie County's 68 public schools enroll about 35,738 students and include Lincoln Elementary School.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Woodrow Wilson Middle School, is about 0.3 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Lincoln Elementary School places 3rd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Lincoln Elementary School has an NCES locale of City: Small.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 347, down from 408 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 13.2 to 10.1 over 4 years.
On allk12, people connected to Lincoln Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
269,052
Census ACS
Median income
$63,354
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
35,738 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Erie City SD
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 2,501 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 769 students
- Northwest PA Collegiate AcademyHigh · 750 students
- Strong Vincent Middle SchoolMiddle · 711 students
- Pfeiffer-Burleigh SchoolElementary · 690 students
- East Middle SchoolMiddle · 672 students
Other schools in Erie
- Erie High SchoolHigh · 2,501 students
- McDowell High SchoolHigh · 2,133 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 769 students
- Northwest PA Collegiate AcademyHigh · 750 students
- Strong Vincent Middle SchoolMiddle · 711 students
- Grandview Elementary SchoolElementary · 691 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary School is the 102nd largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolPittsburgh, PA · 414 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolGettysburg, PA · 393 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolEmmaus, PA · 376 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolBethlehem, PA · 355 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolPottstown, PA · 322 students
Nearby schools
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School0.3 mi · 769
- McKinley Elementary School0.6 mi · 504
- Jefferson Elementary School0.9 mi · 447
- Northwest PA Collegiate Academy1.1 mi · 750
- JoAnna Connell School1.2 mi · 556
- Perseus House CS of Excellence1.5 mi · 627
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow large is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 347 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lincoln Elementary School serve?
Lincoln Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Lincoln Elementary School have?
Lincoln Elementary School employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.1:1.
How diverse is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School reports a student body of 39% White, 4% Hispanic, 27% Black, 8% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School is overseen by Erie City SD in Erie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.