Lincoln Leadership Academy CS

Located at 1414 E. Cedar St., in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Lincoln Leadership Academy CS is a compact combined-grade school that teaches 973 students (grades K through 12), part of Lincoln Leadership Academy CS. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 1,819 students each, so Lincoln Leadership Academy CS sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.

Lincoln Leadership Academy CS sits inside Lincoln Leadership Academy CS, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Lincoln Leadership Academy CS logs that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 13% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Lehigh County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 78% of students at Lincoln Leadership Academy CS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln Leadership Academy CS is in the bottom 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.3%; Lincoln Leadership Academy CS posts 21.8%, -22.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Lehigh County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,079 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lehigh County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,984 students), Lincoln Leadership Academy CS is one campus in the mix.

Ritter El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Leadership Academy CS. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Leadership Academy CS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.1%.

Lincoln Leadership Academy CS operates from a metropolitan location. Lincoln Leadership Academy CS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 32%: 735 students in 2018 compared to 973 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 71% to 82% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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