Summary:
Elementary schools in the Glencoe-Silver Lake School District consist of two schools serving different grade levels: Lakeside Elementary in Silver Lake, which serves grades 3–6 with 408 students, and Lincoln Elementary in Glencoe, which serves PK–2 with 290 students. Together they enroll 698 elementary students, with Lakeside accounting for 58.5% of that total and Lincoln 41.5%. Because the two schools cover different grades in sequence rather than the same grades, they function as a pipeline rather than as direct competitors.
Lakeside Elementary is the academic standout. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 59.7% in math, 49.3% in reading, and 27.8% in science — above the district (46.5%, 41.6%, 17.9%) and the state (44.9%, 48.6%, 25.5%) in every subject. Math is the biggest strength: Lakeside was 15.5 points above the state in 5th grade and 22.1 points above in 6th grade, while 3rd-grade math was 2.7 points above. Reading is much closer to the state average, though 3rd grade lagged 5.2 points below. Science improved sharply year over year, rising from 20.0% to 27.8%. Lakeside has also rated 3 stars and 61st–65th percentile for three straight years, while the district overall is 40th percentile and 2 stars.
Lincoln Elementary's standout metric is class size: a student-teacher ratio of 12.2 versus Lakeside's 14.9, a difference of 2.7 students per teacher. Lincoln's free/reduced-lunch rate is slightly higher, 42.76% versus 39.95%. Lincoln has no test-score or school-rank data in this file, which is expected because MCA testing begins in grade 3 — it is not a sign of weak performance.
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