ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL

Set in ELM CREEK, Nebraska, ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is an one-room-style 9-12 campus, one of the schools within ELM CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It educates 149 students across grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 391 students per school, that is 62% leaner than typical.

Within ELM CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 364 students, ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder consists of 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Buffalo County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Buffalo County (around 33%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.9%, the actual is 72.7%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Buffalo County indicate median household income runs about $75,911, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Buffalo County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,449 students), of which ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is one.

ELM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 64.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELM CREEK HIGH SCHOOL has shrank 3%, going from 153 students in 2018 to 149 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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