GATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 2700 W LOUISE ST, in GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, GATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized K-5 school that instructs 284 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 9,983 students. GATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, GATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 44% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Hall County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hall County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,251 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Hall County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,203 students), of which GATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

STOLLEY PARK ELEM SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 32%, going from 415 students in 2018 to 284 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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