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Non-Neighborhood Choice Enrollment Now Open for 2025-26

  • October 28: Choice enrollment application opens in ParentVUE
  • January 17: Choice application closes for grades 1-12

Learn more about choice enrollment

Lincoln High School leads the way in academics, quality instruction, and innovative learning.

Our school has earned local, state and national recognition for academic excellence, quality teachers, and innovative practices. Success is not limited to the classroom with Abe athletic programs winning league and state championships in recent years and developing vibrant programs in music, theater, performing arts and industrial arts.

Student Life at Lincoln

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Clubs & Activities

From Project Lit to coding, theatre, and more we offer a range of clubs and co-curricular opportunities. 

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Army JROTC

Our JROTC program teaches students the value of citizenship, leadership, service to the community, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment, while instilling in them self-esteem, teamwork, and self-discipline

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Abe Athletics

Our student-athletes are dedicated to being students first. 

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School of Distinction

Lincoln earned the Washington State School of Distinction Award for four-consecutive years. 

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Teach 253

In partnership with Pacific Lutheran University, Lincoln students who want to become teachers can begin their journey while still in high school.

 

By The Numbers

91.2%

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Graduation Rate

13

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Average Years of Teaching Experience

84%

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Students Accepted to Next Institution

63%

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Students Earn Industry Certifications

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Abes in Action

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Learning in a Historic Environment

Lincoln High School is the second oldest high school in the city of Tacoma and is renowned in the community for its timeless beauty. Construction began in 1913 and was designed in a classical Collegiate Gothic style by prolific Tacoma school architect Fredrick Heath.

Initially called Lincoln Park High School, the name was changed to Lincoln High School shortly after opening the school. The magnificent Lincoln Bowl was opened in the late 1940's and has been attended by such famous figures as Elvis Presley and presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.

Our school was completely renovated in 2007, with many of the school’s outstanding architectural details restored or updated. One hundred years after opening, the school is economically and ethnically diverse, a model of the modern, multicultural urban high school.
Over the years, the nicknames have come and gone, from the Lynx to the Railsplitters, but Lincoln High School is now home of the ABES: Absolutely Better Every Day.