Summary:
ZIP code 02838 has one listed school, Northern Lincoln Elementary, a PK–5 school in Lincoln with 495 students. With no other listed schools, families have one local school to consider rather than a set of nearby campuses to compare. The clearest strength is science: in 2025–26, proficiency was 49.3%, 18.2 percentage points above Rhode Island and 5.3 points above the Lincoln district.
Across the three subjects, Northern Lincoln Elementary was strongest against the state in science, followed by math; ELA was essentially at the state level overall. Math proficiency was 39.2%, 7.3 points above the state, and the school exceeded state results in grades 3, 4, and 5. ELA was 33.2%, just 0.1 point above the state, but that near-match hides a grade 4 concern: 21.2% proficiency, 11.2 points below the state, compared with school advantages of 5.7 points in grade 3 and 5.1 in grade 5. Grade 5 science was also strong at 49.3%, 16.7 points above the state.
Recent results improved in math and especially science, while ELA declined: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, the school changed by −3.2 points in ELA, +4.6 in math, and +13.4 in science. Science moved from 6.9 points below the district to 5.3 points above it; math narrowed its district gap, while ELA fell further behind. SchoolDigger rated the school three stars and ranked it 63rd of 163 schools in 2025–26, at the 61st percentile, an improvement of eight places from the previous year but below its 60th-place ranking in 2023–24. 2024–25 context figures were a student–teacher ratio of 13, a free/reduced-lunch rate of 46.26%, and spending of $23,249 per student.
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