CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an one-room-style elementary campus in CALLAWAY, Nebraska, run under CALLAWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school works with 98 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 64% leaner than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

Across the 2 schools in CALLAWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (172 students total), CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.7%; this one delivers 54.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Custer County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,906 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Custer County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,845 students), CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CALLAWAY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 67.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 20%: 123 students in 2018 compared to 98 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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