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Equity, Access & Post-Secondary Pathways

Does my child have equal access and opportunities?

Programs, advanced coursework, college enrollment and persistence.

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What the school provides

Programs and opportunities for every student.

Access starts with what's on offer: the programs a school runs, the enrichment students actually take part in, and the school's arts designation.

Out-of-school time participation

The share of students who take part in after-school and enrichment activities — arts, clubs, tutoring and more — outside regular class time, as reported by CPS.

CPS counts after-school and enrichment programs here, but not its athletics teams — so a school with strong sports can still show a lower number, and CPS notes this may not capture every program a school runs.

of students take part

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Creative Schools Certification

CPS's arts-education designation, describing how broad and deep the school's arts programming is — staffing, minutes of instruction, and partnerships. It is a description, not a score, and it doesn't feed any rating on this site.

Learn more about how designations are scored at ingenuity-inc.org.

Arts designation Excelling
Incomplete Emerging Developing Strong Excelling

As published for SY2025-26

Arts access is part of equal opportunity — this designation tells you how the school invests in it.

Students per support-staff member

Non-teaching, student-facing staff — counselors, case managers, and similar support roles — divided into the school's enrollment. CPS publishes staffing by position on each school's Staffing & School Resourcing page; this combines every student-support position into one ratio.

Computed from CPS-published numbers: 843 students (Fall 20th-day enrollment) divided by 2 support-staff positions — combining district-provided positions and any the school added with its own flexible funding.

422 students for every support-staff member
SY2025-26 only — CPS publishes one year at a time
203 CPS average
219 above district

Access to support staff shapes whether a struggling student gets help early — this ratio tells you how stretched that support is.

The Illinois State Report Card hasn't published a course list for Abraham Lincoln Elementary School yet, or the scraper hasn't run for it.

Clubs & activities · SY2025-26
37 activities offered this school year
  • 16” Softball
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Boys' Basketball
  • Boys' Cross Country
  • Boys' Soccer
  • Boys' Track
  • Boys' Volleyball
  • Cheerleading
  • Chess
  • Football
  • Girls' Basketball
  • Girls' Soccer
  • Girls' Volleyball
  • Softball
  • Tennis
  • Touch Football
  • Volleyball
  • Band/Orchestra
  • Ceramics
  • Choir/Chorus
  • Crochet
  • Drama
  • Drawing
  • Fiber Arts
  • Musicals
  • Painting
  • Percussion
  • Plays/Acting
  • Recorder
  • Theater
  • Chinese
  • German
  • Math Team,Science Club,Yearbook Club,Debate Team,Language Club(s) (Spanish
  • etc),Tutoring,Homework Club/Study Group,Chess Team,Math Bowl
  • Crisis Intervention Services
  • Boys/Girls Scouts

As listed on the school's CPS profile page for this school year. Offerings can change — check with the school for schedules and how to join.

Source

CPS School Profile pages, published by Chicago Public Schools: college enrollment & persistence, early college & career credentials, postsecondary pathways & transition enrollment, admissions programs, out-of-school time, the Creative Schools Certification, and the CPS Staffing & School Resourcing page (student-support-staff ratio). Advanced coursework enrollment, AP exam pass rates, and course offerings come from the Illinois State Board of Education / Illinois State Report Card.

Coverage

Data through SY2025-26. We show every year the public source reports back to SY2017-18.

How to read this page

Every number is shown exactly as CPS publishes it — we never combine measures into a score. When a number is missing, CPS either hasn't reported it or hides it to protect small groups of students.

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