Lincoln El Sch

Lincoln El Sch, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, overseen by Gettysburg Area SD, hosts 393 students, covering grades K through 5.

Gettysburg Area SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,782 students. Lincoln El Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Lincoln El Sch shows that White students make up the majority at 75%. The remainder breaks down as 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Lincoln El Sch lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the area at large, Adams County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,092, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Adams County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,831 students), Lincoln El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gettysburg Area MS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Lincoln El Sch. On composite proficiency, Lincoln El Sch comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Lincoln El Sch's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 393). Black enrollment moved from 11% to 3% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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