Lincoln Elementary - 08

Lincoln Elementary - 08 is an average-sized elementary campus in Aberdeen, South Dakota, operated by Aberdeen School District 06-1. The school hosts 233 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Aberdeen School District 06-1 runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,241 students. Lincoln Elementary - 08 is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln Elementary - 08 records that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 8% Native American, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Lincoln Elementary - 08 logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.2:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at Lincoln Elementary - 08 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Brown County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lincoln Elementary - 08 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.2%, the actual is 48.5%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Brown County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,898 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Brown County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,354 students), Lincoln Elementary - 08 is one campus in the mix.

Simmons Middle School - 03 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Elementary - 08 comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln Elementary - 08 has declined 36%, going from 363 students in 2018 to 233 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 70% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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