Lincoln Elementary School

This school is fantastic. They have a fun, active school, with Junior Great books, sports, music and art. They also begin French in kindergarten. There is a bit of overcrowding, because everyone is trying to move into the area. It is a great since of community and friendship, where people are willing to help each other out. The school is extremely clean but dated. They have smartboards that the FOL raised funds for and they encourage summer reading.
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My son is a third grader at Lincoln. This school is excellent. Great teachers, good environment, and very engaging parents. The academic progress is very competitive. We are lucky to go to this school because this is better than a lot of private schools!
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Lincoln provides an excellent education and creates a wonderful sense of community. There is wonderful parent involvement, and the children feel supported and valued by everyone in the building.
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This is an excellent school that provides a balance of challenging academics with top notch after school activities. I see involved parents, devoted teachers and a motivated principal who is approachable and available to work out any concern. The end product of this school are happy students who are nurtured and have great friends. This is truly an exceptional school. Go Lincoln!!!!!!!!
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While we like Lincoln, the class size is a real concern. Many classes have 33 students to 1 teacher. The lower grades class size seems to be getting bigger every year and there is no room to expand.
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The teachers, principal, staff, parents and students. It is an awesome school dedicated to doing the best for our students.
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I love this wonderful public school because their fabulous teachers nurtured my son right into a challenging college prep High School and now continue to teach and nurture my daughter. Their wonderful PTA and FOL work hard and well to provide extracuriculars like Art, Music, Band, Computers & Technology, PE and even a Climbing Wall. And now, we are even going for a Greenhouse Rooftop Garden !!! How wonderful is that? My children have always felt safe and at home when they are at school. I love this school.
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Lincoln is a wonderful school. It has many programs like band and sports, but the truth is, it's the parents. Many of the parents come from relatively wealthy families, and are kind to put their time and money into Lincoln. We also have a wonderful principal, who has organized many new oppurtunitiess for students. My children were both in I.B, and they were challenged evry day at Lincoln. The teachers are not the best in the city, but they do not have any teachers worth criticizing. Most students also live close to school, and the surrounding neighborhood to Lincoln is very welcoming. Overall, Lincoln is a great school, especially for a Public School.
--Submitted by a parent

Fantastic. My child was in the pre-IB and was always challenged. He was well prepared for one of the top selective entrance high schools. The band program is FANTASTIC. The sports programs are good too. The principal has a great manner with the students. Boys are well appreciated in the school, which can sometimes be a problem in strong academic programs.
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Our daughter has been at Abraham Lincoln for 3 years now (grades 1-3). We have been uniformly impressed by the school, in particular the quality of the teachers and the high level of parental involvement. The qualities that make this school so wonderful are not the obvious, quanitifable ones (test scores, student-to-teacher ratio, etc), though Lincoln holds its own in these areas, but in the care, attention to detail, and esprit de corps of the place. Everyone, from the principal to the teachers, students and parents, cares deeply about the school. To give an example, in second grade, our daughter's teacher organized a toy drive for children in Tanzania, and her daughter, a member of the Peace Corps, personally delivered the toys. There are many other stories like this. We really feel our daughter is becoming a 'citizen of the world' at this school, learning far beyond the standard curriculum.
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