Lincoln Elementary School

As a small neighborhood school, Lincoln’s staff is committed to helping our students achieve academically and in life. Building-wide technology provides opportunity for individualized enrichment and reinforcement. We offer technology opportunities through the use of computers in the classrooms and a mobile wireless laptop lab utilized for all students. Our media center offers a computer lab and an interactive whiteboard for student technology presentations. Lincoln offers special education programs and the English for Speakers of Other Languages program. A before- and after-school program is also available through the YMCA.

Parents and community members are encouraged to become involved through site council, and Title I parent involvement. Lincoln collaborates with Communities in Schools, South Central Improvement Alliance, Downtown Rotary Club, Boy and Girl Scouts and various churches and businesses. 
We have classroom counseling and celebration assemblies.

Exit Kellogg at Central Business District. Go south at Topeka to Lincoln St. Lincoln Elementary is on the corner of Lincoln and Topeka. See Maps for all USD 259 locations.

The Lincoln Elementary family develops responsible, respectful, resourceful life-long learners dedicated to achievement and excellence!

1. Reading comprehension achievement will increase across all student groups.
2. All students will demonstrate effective communication skills through written and oral communication.
3. Students will demonstrate competency in math outcomes according to their grade level and ability.

Each school has a site council, which is a group of parents, community members, business representatives, teachers and other school staff. Site councils identify, consider and discuss educational problems and issues at the school. Councils provide advice and counsel for evaluating state, school district and school site performance goals and objectives. Councils may also recommend methods that may be employed at the school site to meet these goals and objectives.

Site Council Meeting Day: Tuesday
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: Lincoln School Library

• English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
• Title I school-wide program
• Family Literacy Program
• Parent Involvement
• D.A.R.E.
• Before- and after-school program
• Speech and Language Services
• Reading Is Fundamental (RIF)
• Communities in Schools
• Pre-Kindergarten
• Computers in every classroom
• Wireless laptop carts
• Smartboards
• School-based Health Center
• Mentors and Tutors

Kindergarten

Pre-Kindergarten Program
Full Day Kindergarten

Lincoln Elementary collaborates with various agencies in the community to work to meet the needs of students and their families. We provide curriculum nights, before and after school tutoring, and a variety of technology learning experiences.

The first Lincoln Elementary School, designed by Proudfoot and Bird, architects, opened in November of 1885 with three members on the teaching staff. They were Etta Fellows, Ora Stanley, and principal May Gibson, who was later Mrs. W.H. Culp. The original building cost $10,500 and the lot on which it was built cost $1,500.

Carleton, Emerson, Park, "Old Washington" and Webster schools were in operation before 1885. Wichita grew from 5,400 in 1880 to 40,000 in 1888. During the winter of 1886-87, the teacher in the southeast upstairs room of the new Lincoln School could stand at one window and count more than a hundred new houses south and east of the building. The original six rooms continued to serve as classrooms and changed little during their 50 years of use.

Many civic and cultural leaders of the city were at one time connected with Lincoln School. From the architecture of the homes in the district, it is evident that during the booming era of early 1900, the patrons of Lincoln School would have been classed in the higher socioeconomic bracket. Following the depression years of the 1930s, many of these fine homes were converted into apartments and rental units. The area began changing from residential to a partially commercial community as the pioneer families grew up or moved and were replaced by a more mobile society.

A new wing of the building of 11 rooms was erected in 1938 featuring glass brick which admittied light, case stone for decorative paneling in brown at the building base, center and top, and the school name lettering. During the years a total of seven portable classrooms were added.

In 1976-77, a permanent addition was constructed which included three classrooms for educable mentally handicapped children, a new kitchen, office space, multipurpose room, speech room, math lab, mechanical room and restrooms. The old multipurpose area was remodeled for use as a media center, and other areas were converted into four additional classrooms. During the construction of the addition, construction workers dug up bricks displaying the Kansas sunflower which had been part of the original structure.

In 1991, all windows were replaced with thermal pane steel windows. In 1993, the boiler was replaced.

A student health center was built on the Lincoln site in December 1995. The Wichita/Sedgwick County Cities in Schools paid the $172,668 for construction of the Health Children Center. The center provides primary care, dental and mental health services to children from West High feeder schools. The 2,250 square foot facility includes four medical exam rooms and one dental exam room. The center is a satellite of the Wichita Primary Care Center, a federally qualified community health center.

Funding for the center was from private sources including both local and national businesses and foundations. Donations of furniture and equipment were received from local businesses and individuals. Pediatric residents, medical students, nurse practitioner students and school nurses are trained in the center about school health problems, community pediatrics and multidisciplinary team functioning. The facility is staffed by Wichita/Sedgwick County Department of Health, Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services, Wichita Head Start, Sedgwick County Department of Mental Health and the Wichita Child Guidance Center.

In April 2000, the voters of the Wichita School District approved a $284.5 million bond issue. The projects began in the fall of 2000 and were completed over the next five years. The plan built 19 multipurpose rooms, upgraded science labs, replaced portable classrooms with permanent construction, improved handicap accessibility to all buildings, rebuilt five existing elementary schools, added a new elementary and middle school, expanded seven other elementary schools and provided nine new libraries as well as the expansion of nine others. Building infrastructure in 82 buildings was also upgraded, including the replacement of antiquated plumbing, updates and expansion of electrical systems, replacement of inefficient or broken windows and doors, upgrades of heating and cooling systems, and asbestos abatement when required.

Places Architect and construction company Coonrod and Associates provided Lincoln with Bond project updates. Lincoln received a new addition including a libary, health room and two new classrooms. Renovations were also made to existing classrooms and the 2nd floor restrooms.

The Bond celebration was held on February 10, 2005.