GRETNA HIGH SCHOOL

Set in GRETNA, Nebraska, GRETNA HIGH SCHOOL is an expansive four-year high school, part of GRETNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It works with 955 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 391 students each, so GRETNA HIGH SCHOOL sits 144% bigger than that benchmark.

GRETNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 7,013 students. GRETNA HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, GRETNA HIGH SCHOOL shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 8% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, GRETNA HIGH SCHOOL logs 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages around 10.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Sarpy County's rate of about 23%.

In the area at large, Sarpy County reports that median household earnings sit near $103,321, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Sarpy County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,055 students), GRETNA HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SQUIRE JOHN THOMAS ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

GRETNA HIGH SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. GRETNA HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 1,258 (now 955). The White share of enrollment decreased from 92% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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