ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in WILBER, Nebraska, part of WILBER-CLATONIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, serveing 254 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in WILBER-CLATONIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (601 students total), ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER reports that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Hispanic.

On the resource side, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 34% of students at ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Saline County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.4%; this one delivers 60.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Saline County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,910, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Saline County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,333 students), ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WILBER-CLATONIA HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 58.5%.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 254 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT WILBER community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.