1
Enrollment
414
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MT LEBANON SD·NCES 421611000246
Lincoln Elementary School
2 Ralston Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15216 · (412) 344-2147 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL414 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
14.9:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
85 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 75%
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 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
81.9%
PA avg 51.1% . +3.4pp since 2023
Math
77.7%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.9% | 77.7% |
| 2023-24 | 78.5% | 78.5% |
% 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
81.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 (81.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary School this school | 414 | 20.5% | 81.3% |
| Penn Wood Elementary School West Chester | 438 | 18.7% | 70.7% |
| Mount Nittany Elementary School State College | 413 | 23.0% | 72.0% |
| Park Forest Elementary School State College | 419 | 18.6% | 75.3% |
| Indian Lane Elementary School Media | 470 | 19.6% | 78.8% |
| Howe Elementary School Pittsburgh | 398 | 17.1% | 80.6% |
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 Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #87 of 1,396 | #30 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.7% | #145 of 1,511 ▼ 41 | #42 of 141 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.9% | #53 of 1,511 ▲ 91 | #20 of 141 ▲ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 414 | #825 of 1,638 | #56 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #1,251 of 1,528 | #117 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.8% | #937 of 1,531 | #99 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.5% | #1,433 of 1,600 | #120 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #1,017 of 1,045 | #69 of 73 |
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
414
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 471
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 414 | 27.7 | 14.9:1 | 21% (85) |
| 2023-24 | 436 | 28.9 | 15.1:1 | 19% (85) |
| 2022-23 | 438 | 28.4 | 15.4:1 | 20% (89) |
| 2020-21 | 413 | 26 | 15.9:1 | 20% (84) |
| 2017-18 | 417 | 26.8 | 15.6:1 | 17% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 433 | 31 | 14.0:1 | 12% (50) |
| 2010-11 | 413 | 28 | 14.8:1 | 8% (33) |
| 2000-01 | 370 | 23 | 16.1:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 471 | 29 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (417 to 414); teachers up 3% (26.8 to 27.7).
About Lincoln Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lincoln Elementary School is part of Mt Lebanon SD. The school has 414 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5.
Mt Lebanon SD has 10 schools; together they serve 5,477 students.
White students are 81% of those enrolled at Lincoln Elementary School. Next come 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 33%.
The school had 27.7 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 14.9:1. The school's 14.9:1 compares with an average of 13.1:1 for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 21%. The 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County is 33 points higher.
Lincoln Elementary School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 93% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Lincoln Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (81.3%) and its predicted rate (68.8%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
Looking at the county, Allegheny County, the median household earns about $78,548 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Allegheny County has 277 public schools with about 141,392 students, including Lincoln Elementary School.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, Dormont Elementary School, is the closest to Lincoln Elementary School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lincoln Elementary School. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Lincoln Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 413 students in 2020-21 and 414 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%.
This page is set up for the Lincoln Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mt Lebanon SD
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Mellon Middle SchoolMiddle · 661 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 416 students
- Howe Elementary SchoolElementary · 398 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolElementary · 310 students
Other schools in Pittsburgh
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Baldwin SHSHigh · 1,657 students
- North Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Pittsburgh Allderdice High SchoolHigh · 1,386 students
- Fox Chapel Area High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Upper Saint Clair High SchoolHigh · 1,269 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary School is the 68th largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolGettysburg, PA · 393 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolEmmaus, PA · 376 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolBethlehem, PA · 355 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolErie, PA · 347 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolPottstown, PA · 322 students
Nearby schools
- Dormont Elementary School0.5 mi · 380
- Washington Elementary School0.7 mi · 416
- Mellon Middle School0.7 mi · 661
- Jefferson Middle School0.8 mi · 621
- Jefferson Elementary School0.8 mi · 310
- Mt Lebanon SHS0.9 mi · 1,772
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln Elementary SchoolHow large is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School enrolls approximately 414 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Lincoln Elementary School serve?
Lincoln Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Lincoln Elementary School?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at Lincoln Elementary School.
How diverse is Lincoln Elementary School?
Lincoln Elementary School reports a student body of 81% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Lincoln Elementary School public or private?
Lincoln Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mt Lebanon SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.