Abraham Lincoln High School

High on a hilltop, ‘mid sand and sea,
Abraham Lincoln, we will honor thee forever.
Thy sons and daughters, however long the trail,
Always will remember thee. Hail! Hail! Hail!

Good academic program.

Lincoln is a great school. I went there, and my son now attends. I would just suggest, that they get a person who can speak properly to parents and students over the phone, as the woman who has the job now, cannot seem to do this. that is all but not bad in the grand scheme of things.)

Students are hella rude, cliquey, unfriendly, you feel like you’re in «Mean Girls.» I didn’t have a great experience because of my peers and I will never return or look back. Teachers were excellent and I joined the Academy of Finance program which definitely inspired me to pursue a business degree when I got in to sjsu right after I graduated, Class of 2009. I didn’t like some administration rules like how they tried to have a close lunch, which would had created chaos, a bunch of thuggish kids being trapped in the school yard during lunch like its a prison yard, riots would had broken out. And the bitching neighbors who complained about our noise and littering, deal With it, the world is full of litter and garbage, don’t blame the high schoolers. If they seriously want to get those kids to behave, the only way would be to make them get a LOBOTOMY. And some wacko keyed my brand new Honda the one day I parked it on the side of campus, freaking creeps, for the rest of the year I always had to park like 2 or 3 blocks to keep it safe. This school is a hellzone waiting to erupt. I only feel sorry for some teachers who are quite excellent who had to settle for this place. The kids are Trolls…

Class of 08 at Lincoln and my middle sister is class of 09 and that my youngest sister is now attending at this school after the remodel of the whole entire place Abraham Lincoln high school looks so much nicer when i revisit my old school while dropping my sister off for her first day of school today looking at the place made me a bit jealous or just envious they even have more seats outside of the cafeteria.

SENIO12S (=

Well ok, sure why not!
Fellow Unilocaler Sam T. wrote a review about one of the many Taraval eateries a couple days ago and in it mentioned how happy he was to have missed the Lincoln HS lunch rush. Lol. how that took me back.
I graduated HS in the 90’s when the average class size at Lincoln was 1000. I believe my 9^th grade class was just under 1200. Quite a change from my 8^th grade catholic school class of 28. The campus took up 6 square blocks. The enormous 3 floor main building, a couple of smaller 2 story buildings. 2 gyms, auditorium, a bunch of «shacks» (think of trailer styler class rooms), a soccer, football, baseball field, tensis and basketball courts, art classes across the streest and a pool 6 blocks away on Vicente I think. They gave us 5 minutes between classes~ someones sick sense of humor I suppose.
I had an excellent GPA, was always in AP classes, was involved in all kinds of student activities. Dated a couple football players. the norm. All except the boys and the girls deans (as well as most of the hall/​security guards) still recognize me on site well over a decade later. Partially because I was friendly, sweet, smart, and cute. But mostly because I was a notorius trouble maker. And of course because they wanted me to do well~ always telling me I was way too smart to be so dumb ;-)
Due to my super strict parents, I was always cutting classes (very easy to do on an open campus with almost 4000 students) to spend time with my friends. I was really really good at it. My zero period I worked in the attendance office, I was editor of the school paper and the photographer so I often had legit hall passes, and I was the Varsity Boys Football coaches TA so he often wrote me notes after the fact to excuse absences he thought were his fault. But every once in awhile i’d get caught. My mom would see me down on Taraval smoking ciggarettes with friends, or sharing one beer between 6 kids (and thinking we felt something!) And she’d call the deans office and I’d end up on detention. I do believe I am the only student who ever smoked in the main office (in front of the door to the principal’s private chambers). I never did get to go to normal detention with the other kids. I either sat in front of the deans or principals office (typically with 2 or 3 friends of course) for months each year. to me it beat going home so it was truly win win. I got to cut class and stay after, and still keep my 3.5 gpa.
But I do feel a lot of gratitude to certain teachers. Mr Fishman (not kidding), Dr Jaffe, the spanish teacher on the 3^rd floor who taught me how to roll my rrrrrr’s (and the reason I am fluent today), Ms Stoflet, and Colonel Powell who let me tag along on a week long ROTC field trip which was my best memory of highschool (I wasn’t in the ROTC program but he knew things were tough at home and let me go with my friends). Thanks to those teachers I did a lot better than my up bringing suggested I would. They really pointed me in the right direction. So although I’ll never go to a reunion (no interest whatsoever), thanks to the staff at Lincoln, the school truly deserves a 5 star rating.

its highschool. People are dramatic, fake, nice, loud, fun, crazy, stupid, smart, dramatic, uh dramatic.
Football team sucked when i got there, but we ended up being really good by the timne i graduated and won out first championship in a while during my senior year.
The programs were cool. I was a cheerleader that dated a football player, blablabla… I got a lot of opportunities by being a part of a cheerleading group. Brotherhood Sisterhood Assebly was an amazing thing to be a part of. it really brought people together, which is what it was started for.
The minus two starts is for the crazy teachers that i couldn’t get along with, and the perverted teachers that made comments about my «body» to other teachers… Yeah, that happend.
Also, i thought school was ridiculously easy. My senior year i hardly came to class or did any HW and passed all classes with atleast a C. Took 3 years of spanish, passing, but today i can’t speak a word of it.
But most likely, its the best school out of all the public schools.
Oh and i forgot to mention — its really crowded! There were about 3000 people when i went there. But our class was the biggest in a while, so maybe thats why.

I spent my entire high school career here. During my jr. year, a whole bunch of McAteer kids came.
When I first went to Lincoln, the majority of kids were from the Sunset. Now, all the Sunset kids don’t go to Lincoln, they’re brought over to Galileo, Mission… I never really experienced that (except having McAteer kids come), I think the whole integration occurred after I left.
There was show choir, I’ve only gone to one of their shows because it was required or maybe it was extra credit for Mr. Aluk’s piano class. After a few years graduating high school, I went to another show, the Little Shop of Horrors, I felt so old going back, but they only charged me $ 5 which was the student fee. The guy assumed we were still Lincoln students without having us show school ID.
What else was big? Oktoberfest, Mayfest, Brotherhood/​Sisterhood Assembly (BSA), spirit week… I never really joined clubs, only during my freshman year, but after a month into school, I never showed up to meetings again.
Right after high school, I missed it, but now I don’t. I would say a group of us (c/​o ’04) visited 2 or 3 times after I left, one for BSA and another time (s) to visit a few teachers.
The pool is on the 4^th floor, remember that.

Honestly, it’s not the best school in the world.
But hey, it’s an SFUSD school other than Lowell. No complaints. My best experiences here were in my honors and AP courses. English Honors with Ms. Beverly Buchanan in my junior year; not only was our class THE BEST, but I fell even more in love with English in this year — enough to major in it. Hell, we even threw her a «21^st Birthday» party.
Math courses… Are not up to par, except maybe for Ms. Engle.
Sciences courses here are FAR SUPERIOR to any other school I know, especially in Chemistry. Any Landa survivor can tell you how to balance a chemical equation in under 20 words in under 30 seconds. Make that 22.5 seconds.
George Cachianes is an amazing Biotechnology teacher who has opened the eyes of many (You can say it’s a lure) to the field of Biotechnology. He even started up an iGEM team of high school students who made headlines in their 2007 (? I’ll check this one day) for placing among prestigious colleges such as Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, and so on. He’s also a cool dude. Real lab work with real lab equipment. Nuff said.
The Academies here are also amazing, as I myself was a product of a two-​year Teacher Academy. Dina Wright and Valerie Ziegler really have something to offer to the world. Both were recipients of SFUSD Teachers of the Year awards, and work diligently in teaching you two years worth of Psychology, Child Development, US History, and Econ/​American Democracy. Ms. Ziegler’s teaching style is AMAZING.
There’s definitely diversity at this school, if not for an overpopulated campus of little Asian kids, but you’ll get your fair share of problems. Whatever, you’ll learn from every experience you encounter, right?
Class of 09!

Wow Mr. Cachianes still teaching here. He is the only teacher I remember, probably one of the best teachers I’ve ever had. An ex-​Genentech employee turned teacher. Introducing the world of biotechnology to me. Can’t believe I was interested in the stuff freshman year of high school. I remember him saying that I would end up at UC Berkeley and eventually with a great career in science. Never applied to Berkeley, but I did end up working a Genentech. Hated it, decided to never work in research again. Science just didn’t pay well enough. I wish I had an economics teacher that was as inspirational.
So the football team doesn’t suck anymore? Didn’t we lose to Washington in the bell game like 20 years in a row or something?
Overall, this was a good school. A lot of asians though.

I don’t go here but I work at a business in the area and have witnessed the antics of the saggy pants teenage thugs that attend this school.
Putting soda cans on the train tracks. Sneaking bacon into the coffee creamer at the local diner. Talking about some poor teenage girl’s lack of assets loud enough for her to hear then laughing about it to her face. Throwing food wrappers on the sidewalk like it’s their personal garbage can. Tagging private property and storefronts.
There have also been several racially charged fights in the area where the cops had to get involved because the fights were becoming full blown riots.
No stars for the future welfare/​unemployment leeches.
Three stars for the decent kids that have to deal with these jerks.
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older but I’m really starting to hate kids.

I woulda gave it a 5, but I still get bad flashbacks from running around that damn resevior.2WICE. Whoevr decided to implement that as criteria for gym class that was f**** nutso! Probably Kerns or Greggains. Those jerks. hahahah!
But LINCOLN was indeed the best. Great folks, great school, and evn some great teachers.
Ain’t been back to it since I last visited it in 2003 or so?
C/​O 2001!
Ain’t we got a reunion coming up or something?
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High on a hilltop
Mid sand and sea
Abraham Lincoln
We will honor thee forever
Thy sons and daughters
However long the trail
Always will remember thee
HAIL HAIL HAIL ! ! !
I can’t believe there is a Unilocal review on my high school but I had to add to it, hahaha.
Class of 2003, baby!

Class of 1991.
Do the math and that should tell you how old I am. What can I say about my beloved Mustangs? So many fond memories: good, bad and ugly… but mostly good. I miss Mr. Fishman, my Economics teacher. Economics can be a very boring subject but Mr. Fishman made the subject so much more interesting. I remember a lot of role-​playing activities and debating other students. He even had a mock trial and that sure was a blast.
I still remember the day when I was in Algebra class and was dozing off. I was seated on the back, next to the window sill and there was this plant above me with its branches sticking out. I moved the plant away from me and the teacher spotted me and said: «John, quit bothering the plant!» So I replied” «But the plant is bothering me.» All my classmates busted out laughing, including the teacher. Funny, I can’t remember her name.
I remember the Bell Game and Turkey Bowl. My senior year, we won the Turkey Bowl for the first time in quite a long time. That sure was a treat. I remember my Freshmen year I lined up against Jamal Fountaine and he darn just bowled me over with his strength. Yes, the same Jamal Fountaine who went on to play in Washington (Huskies) and eventually played a few seasons with the 49ers. How cool is that? Playing professional football where you grew up is pretty neat in my book. He also won a Super Bowl ring in with Steve Young and Jerry Rice back in 94.
But the best memory of all is getting to meet Jaime Escalante. If you don’t know who Jaime Escalante is, he is the famous teacher from L.A. who taught Algebra and Calculus to low income students who weren’t expected to achieve anything in life. He turned their lives around and was solely responsible to sending his students to college and achieve a better life than to what they were accustomed to. They made a movie based on his experience entitled, «Stand and Deliver» with Edward James Olmos portraying Escalante and Lou Diamond Phillips as a thuggish student who turns his life around. I still crack up for his famous line, «What’s Kal-​Kolos?»
There are good teachers, and then there are phenomenal teachers. Jaime Escalante was in the latter and he did have a different but effective way of teaching. He simply simplified it and made it easier for you to understand the subject. Heck, I’m not the best at Math but he made me feel like a genius after just meeting him. That was one of the high light of my High School years.
As I drive by my old school, I feel a sense of pride that it’s well taken care of. It stands so majestic overlooking the Pacific in the heart of the Sunset. At least it’s no longer painted that ugly green color when I was going there. Gosh, that color was awful. Now, I just gotta figure out a way for my kids to attend this High School. =)
Some of our famous Alumni:
Barbara Eden (I dream of Jeannie)
Mike Holmgren (Football Coach: SF, GB, SE)
Johnny Miller (Sports)
Jeffrey Tambor (Actor)
And some have made the ultimate sacrifice in joining our Armed Forces. I say bravo to them and may they rest in peace.

Yay, Lincoln. My high school. I love Lincoln irrationally. I love Lincoln’s loud and overcrowded halls and the variety of students we have. Our rallies are always crazy, people have so much spirit that they paint themselves (shirtless guys) half red and half yellow. Whoo. Also, the off campus lunch is a bonus because not many high schools have the freedom that we do. I love the clubs and BSA thing we have going on. I’m a part of Varsity Gold Show Choir :)
1 star off because the kids here *sigh* can be really, really rude and irresponsible about the trash and taking care of our neighborhood.

Motto Finimus Coepturi
(Latin: Finish to begin)
Established 1940
School type Public
Colors Crimson and Gold
Campus Type Urban
Mascot Lincoln Mustangs
Homepage
The school hymn was written by a Lincoln graduate, Patricia Cutler Aversano, in 1943 and called «High on a Hilltop». The lyrics to the hymn are:
High on a hilltop, ‘mid sand and sea,
Abraham Lincoln, we will honor thee forever.
Thy sons and daughters, however long the trail,
Always will remember thee. Hail! Hail! Hail!
Abraham Lincoln High School was established on Tuesday, August 27, 1940, accepting approximately 950 students under Lincoln’s first Principal, Clyde W. White. Its opening and dedication ceremony was held on September 22, 1940.
Infodiva is Class of 1982. Yeah that is right Infodiva is old, but full of wisdom. So listen young chillens… ALHS Made me the woman I am today. Since I am on the Alumni Committee It continues to mold me.
I can see this high school from my windows, that is when there is no fog.
I am really suprised to see a review here. hahaha go figure.
I had a choice ALHS or Lowell in 1978. I am the baby of six children. My 2 sisters went to Lowell. My brothers went to ALHS. Their graduation classes are 1976 1978 1980.
I got an ok education. I attended Close-​Up via the school. Close-​up a Political Science Advocacy Education Organization only recruits via a few schools in SF. Lowell at the time was not one of them.
I was in Leadership class. We planned all the fundraisers and events. We started that Chinese Food Fundraiser. Nona Louie had connections to get trays of rice or noodles and we would have to package the food in containers. I attended all of the proms.
I was in Junior Statemen and Junior Achievement.
We had off campus food choices, that is how I fell in love with El Burritto Express 26^th and Taraval. See Review. The market on Quintara is still there owned by the same family. I used to live on the sandwiches. Someone mentioned the «Beanery» OMG that name took me back. I bought stuff there every once in awhile. I was always at the «Cage» yeah what is that? hahah
I was in Drama with Zora Chanes (RIP) I was on the Speech Team. I was in choir… dam what wasn’t I into. Sports! Anything Math! I was all about performance, speaking acting. Some notable ALHS alumni…:
B.D. Wong (Tony Award Winner) Matt Weinhold (Comedian) Carol Channing (Actress) Coach Mike Holgrem I think he is with NFL Seattle now. We have more. Be proud.
Alot of our alumni is successful… CPA’s Lawyers Teachers…
Our AAA Football Team has always been kickass. Some of the players have gone pro. Remember Lincoln has a football tradition with Washington High School in San Francisco called the «Bell Game.» It is a football game where the winning school receives the prized bell. Lincoln currently has the bell.
They offered great language courses. I learned Spanish with Ms. McAdow. ok let me shout out some folks. Robert Sitov Counselor. Dr. William Mason ALHS Alumni President and he is also Alumni pres for SFSU. Small friggin world. this is why I try to stay good.
Here are a few websites for your perusal:
I would send my kids here! Don’t be so harsh.
Join! Participate! Get a Tee-​shirt or Yearbook from your class.
The School Newspaper. The Lincoln Log.
Great Stats.
ok enough. Infodiva reppin her Alma Mater Yo Sunset. I did not even talk about the library or other things. Hope I did not bore ya. Audi

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Eh i spent four years here and wish i could have whent to another school! well itnot all that bad i met some nice people that i come to love and all! :D would not send my kids here

Matt did not go to Lincoln High, but had horrible nightmares about this high school til this day of this review. Every time he pass by or even hear Lincoln High, it has hurt him in so many ways.
Matt loved football and played Tight-​end for a unknown high school Varsity football team in San Francisco. His High-​school was decent after two straight Turkey day bowl. (Two of the best High School Football teams in SF played against each other for the trophy). Matt’s high-​school was the visiting team and played Lincoln High at their house. One play has scarred Matt for life in his dream to have at least a career as a football player.
In that horrible last game for Matt, his quarterback threw Matt a quick short pass. Matt caught the ball and ran 10 yards, then all of a sudden a linebacker blindsided Matt and knocked Matt’s ass 30 ft to the sideline and Matt was unconscious and dazed after that hit, which happen to be his final play ever as a football player. The doctor’s order was to quit football and pursue another career. Matt’s concussion was very serious. Matt was very fortunate that he missed two days of his educational studies.
Even to this day, when he pass by Lincoln High’s football field, he looked at the same spot where he was lying down unconscious and shed tears in his eyes emotionally remembering that costly play. Matt could have played at least College Ball and have a decent career as a football player in the next level. Matt would never overcome the pain that has cost him his dream and future.

Wow, I didn’t know we could review schools. Go figure.
Yep, that’s right. I was there for all FOUR years. I (barely) graduated on time and on stage.
My worst year? Junior year. My God, I was smoking, doing drugs, drinking, cutting school, failing classes and all that other good stuff.
At least I went through 4 years without getting into a fist fight, yea? I guess I was a good kid in some way.
I remember this one time I got drunk at school during drill platoon practice because I found out my boyfriend was cheating on me with this freshman whore. I wanted to throw my stick at her every time we had drum corps practice.
I give this place four stars for their on campus therapists. I saw one regularly for a couple years. I was chronically depressed to the point where they wanted to put me on meds. But I didn’t have to, thanks for Christy Parsons. I owe her one. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
But hey, this story had a happy ending. I cleaned up Senior year, had good friends, went to night school to graduate on stage, went to all the Senior dances/​events, took lots of pictures and made it memorable.
Oh yeah, I’m class of 2002. Holy shit, I’m young.