BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier elementary campus in LEXINGTON, Nebraska, one of the schools within LEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school instructs 385 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 272.

Across the 7 schools in LEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS (3,242 students total), BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 23% White. The wider county runs roughly 37% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Dawson County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Dawson County) records that median household income runs about $69,880, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Dawson County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,509 students), BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LEXINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.3%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 11%: 347 students in 2018 compared to 385 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 71% to 76%.

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