Summary:
Lincoln Education Service District 27 includes four schools serving kindergarten through grade 8: three elementary schools for grades K–5 and one junior high for grades 6–8, with 999 students in all. The 2025–2026 results show that school averages conceal large differences, especially in math: scores range from 28% to 60% across the four schools, a 32-point spread.
Central Elementary School is the clearest achievement standout: it leads in all-grade math at 60% and ranks second in ELA at 63%, while also leading the other elementary schools in every reported grade-level ELA and math comparison. Its math score is 29 points above the next-highest school, Lincoln Junior High School (32%), and 32 points above the lowest, Washington-Monroe Elementary School (28%). Lincoln leads ELA at 66%, while Washington-Monroe is lowest in both subjects, with 39% ELA. Northwest Elementary School is more mixed: its ELA score of 55% is close to the 56% state result, but its math score of 33% is below the state’s 40%.
Recent changes vary by school, so a single trend does not describe the area: Lincoln’s scores rose 15 points in ELA and 7 in math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Northwest gained 1 point in ELA but fell 13 in math; Central and Washington-Monroe declined in both subjects. Across the four schools, average ELA rose from about 53% to 56%, while average math fell from about 42% to 38%. SchoolDigger’s three-year percentiles declined at all four schools, though Central remains highest at the 69th percentile and Washington-Monroe lowest at the 27th. Other context does not create a simple ranking: student-teacher ratios range from 11.7 to 13.7, and all schools report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, ranging from 47% to 75%; these are observations, not explanations for test results.
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