Lincoln Middle

Lincoln Middle is a middle-grades school of low-enrollment scale in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, part of Milwaukee School District, teacheing 309 students in grades 6 through 8.

Milwaukee School District runs 155 schools in total, collectively educating 65,835 students. Lincoln Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lincoln Middle logs that Black students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Lincoln Middle lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lincoln Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.5%, the actual is 9.9%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the area at large, Milwaukee County reports that median household earnings sit near $64,435, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Milwaukee County's 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), Lincoln Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cass Street Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lincoln Middle comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 19.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Lincoln Middle's enrollment has ticked down 53% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 309). The Black share of enrollment fell from 71% to 64% over that span.

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