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Chester-East Lincoln Elementary School, Lincoln, IL

CEP schoolChester-East Lincoln Elementary School is a public elementary school in Lincoln, part of Chester-East Lincoln CCSD 61 School District. It enrolled 288 students in 2024-25, with 12.0 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "Chester-East Lincoln Elem School".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
288
Teachers (FTE)
24.0
Students per teacher
12.0
Grades
PK to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 12.0. The Illinois average across schools is 13.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.0
District12.0
Illinois13.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
1300 1500th St, Lincoln, IL 62656
Phone
(217)732-4136
District
Chester-East Lincoln CCSD 61 School District
County
Logan County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Distant
NCES school ID
170985000580
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free or reduced-price lunch
12844.4% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Elementary schools elsewhere in Lincoln

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.