ARNOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ARNOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized K-5 school in ARNOLD, Nebraska, one of the schools within ARNOLD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school instructs 121 students in grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 272 students per school, that is 56% leaner than typical.

ARNOLD PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 200 students. ARNOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, ARNOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Custer County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Custer County's rate of about 37%.

With demographic context factored in, ARNOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Nebraska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 67.4%; ARNOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 45.6%, -21.8 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Custer County) records that the typical household earns roughly $67,906 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Custer County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,845 students), ARNOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

ARNOLD HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, ARNOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. ARNOLD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 23% since 2018, when it stood at 98 (now 121). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 2% to 9%.

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