BANCROFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BANCROFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a large primary school in OMAHA, Nebraska, run under OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, hosts 535 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 97% larger than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 94 schools with combined enrollment of 52,524 students; BANCROFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, BANCROFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). Other groups include 11% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Douglas County shows median household earnings sit near $80,391, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BANCROFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 207 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students).

PINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

BANCROFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. BANCROFT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 31% since 2018, when it stood at 781 (now 535). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 11% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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