ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary campus in ELM CREEK, Nebraska, part of ELM CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school enrolls 215 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 21% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in ELM CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS (364 students total), ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Buffalo County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 31% of students at ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.5%; this one delivers 71.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Buffalo County) reports that median household earnings sit near $75,911, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Buffalo County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,449 students), of which ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 220 (now 215). Class-load math has tightened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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