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TACOMA: Is Lincoln High School an example of excellence?

During the 2015 SBAC testing, 302 students in the 11th grade at Lincoln HIgh School in Tacoma took the Math SBAC. Only 16 were proficient; 286 were not. That’s approximately 5.2 percent proficiency.

Is this the example of success we want to show the president of China?

This story was originally published September 22, 2015 at 1:39 PM with the headline "TACOMA: Is Lincoln High School an example of excellence?."

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