HOMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 212 S 3RD, in HOMER, Nebraska, HOMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary campus that instructs 245 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under HOMER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS.

Across the 2 schools in HOMER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (450 students total), HOMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, HOMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 12% Native American, 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, HOMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.1%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dakota County put median household earnings sit near $70,329, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dakota County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,437 students), of which HOMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HOMER HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HOMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 74.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has grew 18%, going from 208 students in 2018 to 245 in 2025. The White share of enrollment grew from 73% to 78% over that span.

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