Summary:
Zip code 62974 has one elementary school, Lincoln Elementary School in Pittsburg, serving grades 3–4 and 163 students. Its latest reported IAR results show a split by subject: in 2025–2026, math proficiency was 41%, just above Illinois at 40%, while ELA proficiency was 49%, below the state’s 56%. ELA is the clearest remaining academic shortfall.
Because Lincoln is the only school listed, there are no area schools to rank as top or bottom; the useful comparison is with state results. Lincoln’s all-grades ELA was 8 percentage points below Illinois, while math was 1 point above. Grade-level results show a more varied picture: fourth-grade ELA was 57%, 1 point above the state’s 56%, but third-grade ELA was 38%, 10 points below the state’s 48%. Both math grades were below their grade-level state results: third grade by 9 points and fourth grade by 1 point. The grade-to-grade ELA difference within Lincoln was 20 points, from 38% in third grade to 57% in fourth grade.
Lincoln’s ELA results improved year over year, though they remain below the state: proficiency rose from 37% in 2024–2025 to 49% in 2025–2026, while the state rose from 53% to 56%; the gap narrowed by 8 points. Math was above the state in both reported years, by 2 points in 2024–2025 and 1 point in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking fell from 56th in 2023–2024 to 34th in 2025–2026, a 22-point decline, even as the latest ELA score rose. Other context includes a 12:1 student–teacher ratio and 65% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 13% in 2025–2026, compared with 20% in the district and 24% statewide. With only one school in the list, its figures cannot show how school characteristics relate to results across schools.
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