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Enrollment
767
Elementary
DISTRICT 418 · STATE 272
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 317284002211
ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7401 JACOBS CREEK DRIVE, LINCOLN, NE 68512 · (402) 436-1121 · Lancaster County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL767 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 21.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
174 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 37%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 113 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 125 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 136 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 126 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 122 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (109) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (122).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
75.4%
NE avg 57.6%
Math
80.8%
NE avg 60.6%
What this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
Source: NSCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NE schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.5%
based on NE schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 10 points, placing it in Nebraska's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (78.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 767 | 22.7% | 78.3% |
| BLACK ELK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OMAHA | 605 | 26.3% | 67.9% |
| MAXEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LINCOLN | 674 | 20.5% | 72.9% |
| SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OMAHA | 447 | 16.6% | 79.6% |
| CARL A SWANSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OMAHA | 283 | 22.3% | 71.6% |
| ARBOR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ELKHORN | 555 | 9.7% | 75.5% |
Matched among Nebraska elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nebraska | In Lancaster County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.3% | #17 of 311 | #1 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.8% | #17 of 398 | #1 of 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.4% | #36 of 438 | #3 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 767 | #6 of 587 | #4 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #300 of 379 | #43 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.2% | #154 of 379 | #27 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.7% | #270 of 359 | #18 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.3% | #144 of 220 | #19 of 31 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
767
-39 (-5%) vs 2020
+26% since 2010-11, when it was 611
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 15.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 767 | 48 | 16.0:1 | 23% (174) |
| 2023-24 | 757 | 46.6 | 16.3:1 | 23% (177) |
| 2022-23 | 762 | 47.6 | 16.0:1 | 17% (131) |
| 2020-21 | 806 | 51 | 15.8:1 | 15% (118) |
| 2017-18 | 827 | 53.1 | 15.6:1 | 14% (113) |
| 2015-16 | 815 | 48 | 17.0:1 | 11% (93) |
| 2010-11 | 611 | 34 | 18.0:1 | 12% (72) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (827 to 767); teachers down 10% (53.1 to 48).
About ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL runs as a large elementary school in LINCOLN, Nebraska. In all, 767 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. That is 182% above the average of about 272 students for elementary schools in Nebraska.
LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS has 67 schools and 42,301 students, and ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The share of White students at ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 69%, a majority. The school is also 12% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Black. That is lower than the 81% White share among all Lancaster County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
There are about 16.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has 48. Elementary schools in Nebraska have an average ratio of 21.0:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 23%. That is lower than the 32% average for public schools in Lancaster County.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the top 10% of schools in Nebraska. Predicted: 68.5%. Actual: 78.3%.
American Community Survey estimates for Lancaster County show that the median household earns about $74,793 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Across Lancaster County, 97 public schools serve about 48,123 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, SCOTT MIDDLE SCHOOL, is the closest to ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among its closest neighbors with test data, ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 1st of 8 on proficiency.
Federal data place ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 5%, from 806 to 767.
The allk12 page for ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Lancaster County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
326,696
Census ACS
Median income
$74,793
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
97
48,123 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,110 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,086 students
- LINCOLN EAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,982 students
- NORTH STAR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,927 students
- LINCOLN SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,848 students
- LINCOLN NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,819 students
Other schools in LINCOLN
- SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,110 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,086 students
- LINCOLN EAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,982 students
- NORTH STAR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,927 students
- LINCOLN SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,848 students
- LINCOLN NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,819 students
Other Adams Elementary schools
40 other US public schools in 20 states are named Adams Elementary. ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 41.
- ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA, NE · 270 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 743 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 667 students
- Adams ElementaryCary, NC · 655 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolYakima, WA · 643 students
Nearby schools
- SCOTT MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,020
- SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 2,110
- CAVETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 556
- HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 402
- HUMANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 487
- POUND MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 731
Frequently asked questions
About ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 767 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.0:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 69% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black, 12% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Lancaster County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.