Lincoln El Sch

As an intimate elementary-level community in Erie, Pennsylvania, Lincoln El Sch works with 347 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Erie City SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Lincoln El Sch sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Lincoln El Sch is one of 15 schools operated by Erie City SD, a district that instructs 10,473 students overall.

Demographically, Lincoln El Sch lists that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 27% Black, 20% multiracial, 8% Asian, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Lincoln El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Erie County put the typical household earns roughly $63,354 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Erie County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students), Lincoln El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Woodrow Wilson MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln El Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 24.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 347 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 34% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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