HEMINGFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a small elementary campus in HEMINGFORD, Nebraska, HEMINGFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL caters to 209 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under HEMINGFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 272.

Across the 2 schools in HEMINGFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS (383 students total), HEMINGFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, HEMINGFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, HEMINGFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Box Butte County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, HEMINGFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Box Butte County indicate median household income runs about $68,892, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Box Butte County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,693 students), of which HEMINGFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is HEMINGFORD HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, HEMINGFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 239 students in 2018 compared to 209 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 92% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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