Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 299 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELLENSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530246000366
Lincoln Elementary
2100 N. Cora, Ellensburg, WA 98926 · (509) 925-8050 · Kittitas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 60% of Washington public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
162 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (52).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 68% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Ellensburg School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
52.3%
WA avg 58.4% . +10.7pp since 2014
Math
44.9%
WA avg 51.2% . +13.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.3% | 44.9% |
| 2023-24 | 46.3% | 43.0% |
| 2022-23 | 52.1% | 48.5% |
| 2021-22 | 44.1% | 37.3% |
| 2018-19 | 41.7% | 37.6% |
| 2017-18 | 42.3% | 33.9% |
| 2016-17 | 43.4% | 42.2% |
| 2015-16 | 50.4% | 48.1% |
| 2014-15 | 41.6% | 31.9% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. 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
49.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Washington 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 Washington'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
Lincoln Elementary's state test result (49.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary this school | 334 | 48.5% | 49.9% |
| Hulan L Whitson Elem WHITE SALMON | 352 | 45.7% | 49.2% |
| Mt. Stuart Elementary Ellensburg | 336 | 50.0% | 41.8% |
| Roosevelt Elementary School Bellingham | 348 | 49.4% | 37.2% |
| Peshastin Dryden Elementary Peshastin | 283 | 45.2% | N/A |
| Burnt Bridge Creek Elementary Sch Vancouver | 312 | 51.3% | N/A |
Matched among Washington 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 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kittitas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.9% | #432 of 936 | #3 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #537 of 1,103 ▲ 34 | #3 of 6 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #463 of 1,102 ▲ 107 | #3 of 6 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.9pp | #134 of 928 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #850 of 1,268 | #5 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #510 of 1,085 | #4 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.8% | #823 of 1,088 | #3 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.5% | #672 of 1,169 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.4% | #61 of 778 | N/A |
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
334
-119 (-26%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 413
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 334 | 21.3 | 15.7:1 | 49% (162) |
| 2023-24 | 313 | 23.4 | 13.4:1 | 52% (164) |
| 2022-23 | 338 | 24.5 | 13.8:1 | 45% (153) |
| 2020-21 | 453 | 30 | 15.1:1 | 35% (157) |
| 2017-18 | 517 | 30.1 | 17.2:1 | 34% (176) |
| 2015-16 | 503 | 26 | 19.4:1 | 43% (216) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | 21 | 21.8:1 | 29% (133) |
| 2000-01 | 335 | 20 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 413 | 21 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (517 to 334); teachers down 29% (30.1 to 21.3).
About Lincoln Elementary
Lincoln Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Ellensburg, Washington. A federal count lists 334 students at the school, in kindergarten through 5.
Lincoln Elementary is one school in a 9-school district, Ellensburg School District, which enrolls 3,408 students.
At 66%, White students outnumber all other groups at Lincoln Elementary combined. Other students are 30% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kittitas County residents are about 82% White. Lincoln Elementary has a diversity index of 47%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
At Lincoln Elementary, 21.3 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 15.7:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. Roughly 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.
Measured against Washington public elementary schools, Lincoln Elementary receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at Lincoln Elementary are 2.3 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (49.9% actual, 47.7% predicted).
Within Kittitas County, median household income is about $73,804, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Kittitas County number 21 and enroll about 5,387.
Morgan Middle School is located about 0.2 miles from Lincoln Elementary. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Lincoln Elementary is ahead of the 45.1% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 6.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Town: Distant, meaning it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 334, 26% below the 453 of 2020-21.
Discussion on this page can cover sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Kittitas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,172
Census ACS
Median income
$73,804
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
5,387 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ellensburg School District
- Ellensburg High SchoolHigh · 957 students
- Morgan Middle SchoolMiddle · 772 students
- Valley View Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Ida Nason Aronica ElementaryElementary · 361 students
- Mt. Stuart ElementaryElementary · 336 students
- Ellensburg Choice SchoolsCombined · 148 students
Other schools in Ellensburg
- Ellensburg High SchoolHigh · 957 students
- Morgan Middle SchoolMiddle · 772 students
- Valley View Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Ida Nason Aronica ElementaryElementary · 361 students
- Mt. Stuart ElementaryElementary · 336 students
- Ellensburg Choice SchoolsCombined · 148 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary is the 115th largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolKENNEWICK, WA · 427 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolOLYMPIA, WA · 300 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolVANCOUVER, WA · 280 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolTOPPENISH, WA · 244 students
- Lincoln ElementaryHoquiam, WA · 233 students
Nearby schools
- Morgan Middle School0.2 mi · 772
- Ellensburg Open Doors0.6 mi · 38
- Ellensburg High School0.6 mi · 957
- Ellensburg Choice Schools0.7 mi · 148
- Valley View Elementary School0.9 mi · 408
- Early Learning Center1.5 mi · 54
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln ElementaryHow large is Lincoln Elementary?
Lincoln Elementary enrolls approximately 334 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Lincoln Elementary serve?
Lincoln Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Lincoln Elementary?
Approximately 15.7:1 students per teacher at Lincoln Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lincoln Elementary?
At Lincoln Elementary, the student body is approximately 66% White, 30% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Lincoln Elementary?
Lincoln Elementary is overseen by Ellensburg School District in Kittitas County.
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