Lincoln Crossing's Feeder Schools Change in 2028. Here's What Was Decided.
The Board voted in November. The facts are public. Most of this town still has not heard. And if you are buying or selling a home here, this is a fact you cannot afford to learn after the fact.
On the Record August 2026
If you live in Lincoln Crossing and your child is in elementary school today, there is a good chance they will not attend Twelve Bridges High School. That decision was made on November 4, 2025. It was made in public, after a hearing. And a great many families in this town have not heard about it yet.
Here is what happened, and what it means.
What was decided. Beginning with the 2028–29 school year, students at Lincoln Crossing Elementary will feed into Glen Edwards Middle School and Lincoln High School rather than Twelve Bridges Middle and Twelve Bridges High. The first class affected is this past year's third graders. On the same night, the Board approved closing First Street Elementary (the school at the mouth of this writer's own neighborhood, the one I drive past every morning) at the end of the 2028–29 school year, and repurposing that campus to expand Glen Edwards. Once First Street closes, students living north of 5th Street will attend Foskett Ranch; those south of 5th Street will attend Creekside Oaks.
Why? Roughly 2,000 new homes are expected in Village 1 and Village 7 over the next six years. Twelve Bridges Middle and Twelve Bridges High are projected to exceed the capacity they were designed for within the next couple of years, and the physical constraints of those two sites mean there is no inexpensive way to make them bigger. Glen Edwards and Lincoln High do not have that problem. That makes them the only realistic places to put the overflow.
Superintendent Kerry Callahan has been blunt about the arithmetic. The district had roughly 3,500 students in 2000 and is closer to 8,000 now. Everywhere you turn in Lincoln, he told CBS Sacramento, a new house is going up, and new homes bring new students.
The Mello Roos question. This is the part that has generated the most heat, and it deserves a straight answer. Many Lincoln Crossing residents believed their CFD payments guaranteed them a seat at Twelve Bridges High. The district's position is that Twelve Bridges High was not built with CFD money; it was funded through a district-wide general obligation bond and state matching funds. Under state law and board policy, CFD payments buy priority enrollment at the schools that CFD actually helped build. For Lincoln Crossing residents, that school is Lincoln Crossing Elementary. Paying into a CFD does not confer a seat at every CFD-funded school in the district, and Twelve Bridges High was never one of them.
You may find that unsatisfying. It is, as far as I can determine, accurate.
What recourse exists. Students entering middle school in 2028–29 who have an older sibling already at Twelve Bridges Middle or High may follow that sibling. Lincoln Crossing families who want Twelve Bridges Middle can request an intra-district transfer and will be given priority consideration, space permitting.
The analysis. The new school, Liberty at Lincoln, a TK–8 campus in Village 7 built through a partnership among the district, the City of Lincoln, and Lewis Group of Communities, is anticipated to open in 2030–31. The homes arrive over the next six years. The classroom capacity arrives at the end of them.
That gap is the entire story. Between now and 2030, the district has no new buildings to work with, so it is doing the only thing it can do: moving lines on a map, converting a closed elementary school into middle school classrooms, and expanding Sheridan. None of that is mismanagement. It is what a district does when the houses come faster than the bond money.
But it does mean this: in Lincoln, right now, the school your child attends is a forecast, not an immutable fact. Buyers should verify current attendance assignments and check what is scheduled to change before they sign anything. Home sellers should expect informed buyers to ask.
The Timeline
Nov. 4, 2025 — Board approves both the Lincoln Crossing feeder change and the First Street closure
2028–29 — Lincoln Crossing students begin feeding to Glen Edwards Middle & Lincoln High
June 2029 — First Street Elementary closes; campus repurposed for Glen Edwards expansion
2030–31 — Liberty at Lincoln TK–8 anticipated to open
If You're Buying or Selling
School assignment is a material fact and it is currently in motion. Verify the current assignment and the scheduled change before you write an offer or price a home. The district publishes all of it — board agendas, minutes, meeting recordings, and full FAQs for both decisions — at wpusd.org.
All the best,
Tyler E. West
(530) 852-1512
Lincoln Reporting provided courtesy of:
Tyler West
Realtor
(530) 852-1512
tyler@premiers.co
DRE: 02135475
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The Board voted in November. The facts are public. Most of this town still has not heard. And if you are buying or selling a home here, this is a fact you cannot afford to learn after the fact.