Enrollment
233
Elementary
DISTRICT 226 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOQUIAM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530366000566
Lincoln Elementary
700 Wood, Hoquiam, WA 98550 · (360) 538-8250 · Grays Harbor County
GRADES 02–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL233 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of Washington public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
16.8:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
176 students
DISTRICT 71% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 2 | 59 | 25% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 27% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 25% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 22% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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 Hoquiam School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
27.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.1pp since 2014
Math
21.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -19.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 20 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.2% | 21.6% |
| 2023-24 | 24.9% | 23.3% |
| 2022-23 | 32.7% | 30.1% |
| 2021-22 | 25.3% | 26.6% |
| 2018-19 | 41.3% | 45.0% |
| 2017-18 | 37.5% | 46.9% |
| 2016-17 | 35.7% | 48.2% |
| 2015-16 | 26.7% | 38.3% |
| 2014-15 | 30.3% | 41.1% |
% 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
27.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 (27.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Elementary this school | 233 | 75.5% | 27.9% |
| Central Elementary School Hoquiam | 232 | 77.6% | 25.3% |
| Emerson Elementary Hoquiam | 212 | 74.1% | N/A |
| Washington Elementary School Centralia | 294 | 77.6% | 41.9% |
| Edison Elementary Centralia | 313 | 77.0% | 38.6% |
| Northlake Elementary School Longview | 315 | 73.7% | 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 Grays Harbor County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #831 of 936 | #12 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #1,015 of 1,103 ▼ 30 | #13 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.2% | #988 of 1,102 ▲ 31 | #13 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.6pp | #297 of 928 | #4 of 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 233 | #1,063 of 1,268 | #10 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #767 of 1,085 | #9 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.1% | #541 of 1,088 | #3 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.5% | #171 of 1,169 | #8 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.7% | #562 of 778 | #6 of 8 |
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
233
-2 (-1%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 396
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 233 | 13.9 | 16.8:1 | 76% (176) |
| 2023-24 | 224 | 16 | 14.0:1 | 82% (183) |
| 2022-23 | 203 | 15.9 | 12.8:1 | 73% (148) |
| 2020-21 | 235 | 15 | 15.7:1 | 74% (173) |
| 2017-18 | 258 | 15.9 | 16.2:1 | 74% (192) |
| 2015-16 | 263 | 18 | 14.6:1 | 67% (176) |
| 2010-11 | 280 | 14 | 20.0:1 | 66% (186) |
| 2000-01 | 281 | 15 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 396 | 17 | 23.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lincoln Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (258 to 233); teachers down 13% (15.9 to 13.9).
About Lincoln Elementary
Lincoln Elementary operates as a small elementary school in Hoquiam, Washington. It offers grades 2 through 5 and has 233 students enrolled. It has 39% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Washington (about 380).
Hoquiam School District (6 schools, 1,566 students) runs Lincoln Elementary.
More than half of the students at Lincoln Elementary are White (55%). The remaining shares are 32% Hispanic, 6% Native American, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Grays Harbor County's population at about 79%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lincoln Elementary scores 59%.
Teacher count: 13.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 16.8:1. That is in line with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 76%. Among public schools in Grays Harbor County, the average eligibility rate is 65%.
On the allk12 Grade, Lincoln Elementary lands at D, ahead of 13% of Washington public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Lincoln Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 27.9%; the prediction is 29.5%.
Grays Harbor County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $64,414, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 18%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 46 public schools in the county, enrolling about 10,564, Lincoln Elementary among them.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, Central Elementary School, is the closest to Lincoln Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 25.5%, lower than Lincoln Elementary's 27.9%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Town: Remote.
In 2020-21, Lincoln Elementary enrolled 235; in 2024-25, 233. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.7:1 to 16.8:1.
The allk12 page for Lincoln Elementary lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Grays Harbor County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
77,053
Census ACS
Median income
$64,414
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
10,564 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hoquiam School District
- Hoquiam High SchoolHigh · 410 students
- Hoquiam Middle SchoolMiddle · 372 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 232 students
- Emerson ElementaryElementary · 212 students
- Hoquiam Homelink SchoolCombined · 107 students
Other schools in Hoquiam
- Hoquiam High SchoolHigh · 410 students
- Hoquiam Middle SchoolMiddle · 372 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 232 students
- Emerson ElementaryElementary · 212 students
- Hoquiam Homelink SchoolCombined · 107 students
Other Lincoln Elementary schools
213 other US public schools in 37 states are named Lincoln Elementary. Lincoln Elementary is the 178th largest of the 214.
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolKENNEWICK, WA · 427 students
- Lincoln ElementaryEllensburg, WA · 334 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolOLYMPIA, WA · 300 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolVANCOUVER, WA · 280 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolTOPPENISH, WA · 244 students
Nearby schools
- Central Elementary School0.8 mi · 232
- Hoquiam Middle School1.0 mi · 372
- Emerson Elementary1.0 mi · 212
- Hoquiam High School1.2 mi · 410
- Hoquiam Homelink School1.5 mi · 107
- A J West Elementary2.7 mi · 281
Frequently asked questions
About Lincoln ElementaryHow many students attend Lincoln Elementary?
Lincoln Elementary enrolls approximately 233 students in grades 02-05.
What grades does Lincoln Elementary serve?
Lincoln Elementary serves grades 02-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lincoln Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lincoln Elementary is approximately 16.8:1 (14 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lincoln Elementary?
At Lincoln Elementary, the student body is approximately 55% White, 32% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Lincoln Elementary in?
Lincoln Elementary is part of Hoquiam School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.