Lincoln Elementary School, Hutchinson KS

Original Research by School Decision on Lincoln Elementary School

Lincoln Elementary School in Hutchinson, Kansas, is no longer operating. The school’s official status is listed as closed, so any family looking for an active elementary option in the district will need to look at the other schools in the Hutchinson Public Schools system.

Because the school is closed, much of the information one would normally use to assess a school is absent. There is no current enrollment data, no demographic breakdown, and no information on the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. There is also no data on staffing, discipline, or program offerings. The school served a middle range of grades, from roughly third through sixth, based on the state testing data that remains on record.

The available state test results are from the 2022-23 school year, the most recent year before the closure. Across grades three through six, the share of students scoring proficient or above in math was low, with the highest figure in third grade and notably lower results in fourth and sixth grades. In English language arts, the pattern was similar: a modest share of students met the proficiency bar in each grade tested. Fifth-grade science results were somewhat stronger than the math and English results, with a higher proportion of students reaching the proficient threshold. The testing cohort was small, with each grade level having roughly a couple dozen students tested. A parent might want to discuss with the district what academic context these numbers reflected, since they come from a school that no longer exists.

The broader setting is the city of Hutchinson, a mid-sized county seat in south-central Kansas. The local economy blends salt mining, healthcare, and education. Hutchinson Community College and the Kansas State Fairgrounds are notable anchors. Housing in the area is relatively affordable. The district itself, Hutchinson Public Schools, showed no major recent changes in publicly available records, so the educational landscape for families likely centers on the other elementary schools that remain open.

For a resident or parent researching Lincoln Elementary, the core takeaway is that the building is closed. The academic data that exists is a snapshot of a school that served a small student body in a mid-sized city, but it does not reflect a current option. Anyone looking for an elementary school in this area should turn to the district’s active schools to understand what is available now.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 331%

School 31% · District 17% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▼ 10 pts below state median

Grade 412%

School 12% · District 16% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 29% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median

Grade 68%

School 8% · District 27% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 322%

School 22% · District 35% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 31 pts below state median

Grade 415%

School 15% · District 33% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 40% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median

Grade 621%

School 21% · District 30% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median

Science

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 32% · ▲ 12 pts above district

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.