[10] Lincoln is located at 60 Crescent Avenue south of Journal Square in Bergen Hill, on the site of a mansion that had been owned by George Theodore Werts, who served as Governor of New Jersey from 1893 to 1896.

[14] The football team competes in the National Red division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league.

[21] The 1981 football team finished the season with a 9-2 record after winning the NJSIAA North I Group III state sectional title with a 22-14 victory against Lakeland Regional High School in the championship game.

[22][23] In 2009 the Lions finished the season at 8–2, losing in the first round of the NJSIAA North II Group I state playoffs.

[28] The boys' basketball team won the North I, Group III state sectional championship in 2002 with a 50–41 win against Sparta High School in the tournament final.

[29] The 2006–07 team won the HCIAA championship over now defunct Union Hill High School, winning by a score of 50–46.

[32][33] The girls basketball team won the North II Group II sectional championship in 2019, becoming the first public school team for Jersey City to win a sectional title, with a 43-41 win over Secaucus High School.

[34] The girls basketball team was declared as the North II regional champion in 2020, after the finals were cancelled due to COVID.