The Lincoln School Committee is responsible for preschool to grade 8 educational programs at the Lincoln School which serves approximately 665 students. Lincoln School is one of the initial members school in the METCO Program, a voluntary desegregation program that provides an opportunity for students from Boston to enroll in suburban school districts. Currently 91 students from Boston attend the Lincoln School. In addition to the Lincoln School, the district operates the Primary and Middle Schools at Hanscom Air Force Base through a contract with the federal government. Approximately 580 students attend the Hanscom Schools. The community has expressed its support for the schools by voting for six general overrides in the past five years.

Lincoln has a long tradition of educational excellence and strives to offer-innovative student-centered instruction in an inclusive setting with small class sizes. Parents and community members are very supportive of the school and demonstrate this through their active participation in the PTA (Lincoln), PTO (Hanscom), The Lincoln School Foundation and school-based volunteer programs