Abraham Lincoln Elementary vs Victoria Elementary

Abraham Lincoln Elementary and Victoria Elementary sit 5.5 miles apart in Costa Mesa, California, and their overall ratings are nearly identical — 9.2/10 versus 9.1/10 respectively. In California's statewide ranking, Abraham Lincoln Elementary places #173 of 9,533 schools while Victoria Elementary ranks #243 of 9,533, putting both schools well inside the top 3% of the state. For most families, either school clears a high bar on overall performance.

The clearest academic distinction lies in proficiency scores: Abraham Lincoln Elementary holds a 9.1/10 academic score against Victoria Elementary's 8.1/10, a full point gap that likely reflects differences in tested proficiency rates. The growth story runs the other direction — Victoria Elementary scores 9.4/10 on growth versus Abraham Lincoln Elementary's 9.0/10, meaning Victoria is accelerating student progress at a faster rate relative to expectations. Families weighing current achievement levels against year-over-year momentum will find a genuine trade-off here.

Demographically, the two schools are mirror images in some ways and starkly different in one. Enrollment is essentially the same — 294 students at Abraham Lincoln Elementary, 293 at Victoria Elementary — and both run an identical student-teacher ratio of 16.3:1, so class sizes are comparable. The economic divide is substantial: 31% of Abraham Lincoln Elementary students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch versus 61% at Victoria Elementary. That gap is a meaningful signal about the communities each school serves and may help explain the academic score difference while also making Victoria's strong growth score more notable.

Both schools serve grades KG–06, so families with children through sixth grade can plan a full elementary run at either campus without a mid-cycle transfer. Neither school has a grade-range advantage over the other.