FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY

Located at 1000 FULTON ST, in FALLS CITY, Nebraska, FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY is an intimate elementary campus that instructs 174 students (grades 3 through 5), part of FALLS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in FALLS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (899 students total), FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Richardson County as a whole.

On the resource side, FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY records 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Richardson County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.8%, the actual is 55.9%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Richardson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,108 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Richardson County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,217 students), FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FALLS CITY SENIOR HIGH, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 47.3%.

FALLS CITY SOUTH ELEMENTARY operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 176 students in 2018 compared to 174 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share increased from 81% to 87%.

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