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Lincoln Middle School
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Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 5 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lincoln Middle School
Located at 315 SE Crestview, in Pullman, Washington, Lincoln Middle School is a moderately sized junior high that serves 643 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Pullman School District.
Across the 6 schools in Pullman School District (2,731 students total), Lincoln Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Lincoln Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment; the rest consists of 18% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.2:1. The state averages around 18.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, Lincoln Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.0%; this one delivers 60.6%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Whitman County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,406 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Whitman County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,753 students), of which Lincoln Middle School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Franklin Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Lincoln Middle School. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Middle School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.
Lincoln Middle School operates from a small-town location.
Five-year trend. Lincoln Middle School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 640 (now 643). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 10% to 18% over that span.
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