AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in AXTELL, Nebraska, AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact elementary school, run under AXTELL COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. It hosts 200 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Within AXTELL COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 335 students, AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. Compared to Kearney County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.3%; this one delivers 72.4%.

Zooming out to the county, Kearney County reports that median household income runs about $78,631, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kearney County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,320 students), AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: AXTELL HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. AXTELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 47% since 2018, when it stood at 136 (now 200). Over the same period, the White share declined from 97% to 92%.

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