AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a big primary school in AURORA, Nebraska, part of AURORA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 520 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 91% larger than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

Across the 4 schools in AURORA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (1,230 students total), AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.0%; this one delivers 68.2%.

In the area at large, census data for Hamilton County shows median household income runs about $83,994, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hamilton County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,656 students), of which AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

AURORA PRESCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 60.3%.

AURORA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 535 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 87% across the same window.

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