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Unoffical Graduating Class Statistics



  Graduates of Lincoln School 1867-1874 0
  Graduates as The State Normal School for Colored Students (Marion only) 1874-1887 92
  Total High School Graduates from 1890-1910 49
  Total High School Graduates from 1911-1930 177
  Total High School Graduates from 1931-1950 431
  Total High School Graduates from 1951-1960 643
  Total Graduates from 1961-1970 610
  Total School Graduates 1880-1970 2,002
  Total High/Normal School Graduates 1,979

     
  The Smallest Graduating Classes (1890 and 1913) 3
  The Largest Graduating Class (1963) 108
  The Second Largest Graduating Class (1958) 100
  The Third Largest Graduating Class (1957) 93
     
 
     
     
  There were no graduating classes in these years: 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1905, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1916, 1919, and 1922.
     
 
 
 
  The first graduating class to have at least 20 members was in 1928

  The first graduating class to have at least 25 members was in 1946.

  The first graduating class to have at least 50 members was in 1948.

  The largest classes almost wholly composed of women were in 1944 and 1945 (only two men and sixteen women)
     
 
     
 
Longest Tenure of Principles

  Mary Elizabeth Phillips (later Thompson) had the longest tenure of any principal of Lincoln School - from 1896 to 1927.

  John H. Dickerson had the second longest tenure as principal from 1955 to 1970.
     

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