Abraham Lincoln High School students take selfies with their honor roll certificates at an academic celebration in the school’s gymnasium on Jan. 16, 2026. / Los alumnos de la escuela secundaria Abraham Lincoln se hacen selfies con sus certificados de honor en una celebración académica en el gimnasio de la escuela el 16 de enero de 2026. (Melanie Asmar / Chalkbeat)
Abraham Lincoln High School needed to track down 13 graduates.
That’s how many it would take to boost the southwest Denver school’s rating to a middle-tier yellow grade after years at the bottom. If Lincoln could prove to the Colorado Department of Education that at least 13 more graduates were enrolled in college, career training, or the military, the school could earn enough rating points to take a step toward exiting the state’s watchlist for low performance — a feat it hadn’t accomplished in more than a decade…