Lincoln Elementary

Located at 210 N Montgomery St, in Watertown, Wisconsin, Lincoln Elementary is a compact elementary-level community that works with 140 students (grades K through 5), run under Watertown Unified School District. That puts it 57% below the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Lincoln Elementary is one of 10 schools operated by Watertown Unified School District, a district that hosts 3,076 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Lincoln Elementary logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, Lincoln Elementary records 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Lincoln Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 58.8%, a residual of +11.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,750 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Jefferson County's 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,194 students), Lincoln Elementary is one campus in the mix.

eCampus Academy Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 146 students in 2018 compared to 140 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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