GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in GERING, Nebraska, overseen by GERING PUBLIC SCHOOLS, serveing 305 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within GERING PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 6 schools and 1,976 students, GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Scotts Bluff County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 63.9%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Scotts Bluff County indicate median household income runs about $63,614, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 31 public schools in Scotts Bluff County (combined enrollment of about 6,493 students).

GERING EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.9%.

GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 319 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for GEIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.