“Keep Lincolnwood Open – Keep Us Green.”

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Lincolnwood, the flyer states, is more than just a place of learning.

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“If we close Lincolnwood, we lose more than a school – we lose the open spaces where our children play, where families gather, and where a strong, connected community has flourished for years. We cannot let this happen.”

Other parents have joined.

Lisa Grams, the mother of two Lincolnwood students, says there is now a “Families for Lincolnwood” organization.

Grams says one of her biggest worries is that the school board may “cherry-pick” the data, focusing only on certain items like enrollment, while ignoring other factors such as how much it would cost to rehab one school versus others, which building is big enough to absorb more students from others which close, or how many busy streets would little kids have to cross to get to another school if their current one is shut.

Grams says Lincolnwood comes out ahead in many of the criteria, and even has other advantages, such as room to have a preschool. Expanding preschool has long been a D65 goal.

Lincolnwood is also one of two elementary schools to have a projected enrollment increase between 2024 and 2034 (7.2%, just behind Kingsley’s 7.4%). All other elementaries project a decline, but will still have more students than the two smallest schools.