BUFFALO EARLY LEARNING CENTER

BUFFALO EARLY LEARNING CENTER is a small elementary school serving families in NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska. The school has 133 students in 2024-25 across pre-K. By comparison, elementary schools in Nebraska enroll about 272 students on average.

NORTH PLATTE PUBLIC SCHOOLS has 3,751 students in 12 schools, and BUFFALO EARLY LEARNING CENTER is one of those schools.

Of every 100 students at BUFFALO EARLY LEARNING CENTER, about 71 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 20% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 4% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 88%. The diversity index for BUFFALO EARLY LEARNING CENTER is 46%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

For every teacher at BUFFALO EARLY LEARNING CENTER, there are about 18.5 students; the school has 7.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 21.0:1 average for elementary schools in Nebraska, this school's ratio is lower.

In the wider Lincoln County area, median household income comes to about $65,148, roughly 23% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lincoln County's 22 public schools enroll about 5,190 students and include BUFFALO EARLY LEARNING CENTER.

MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.7 miles from BUFFALO EARLY LEARNING CENTER, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The school's locale code, Town: Remote, means it is in a town far from an urbanized area.

Enrollment records show 70 in 2020-21 and 133 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable. The number of students per teacher increased from 14.0 to 18.5 over 4 years.

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