LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the close-knit primary schools in LAUREL, Nebraska, run under LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE SCHOOL, with 183 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE SCHOOL (400 students total), LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 96% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.1%, the actual is 62.0%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Cedar County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,578 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Cedar County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,215 students), LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. LAUREL-CONCORD-COLERIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 221 (now 183). The White share of enrollment edged down from 92% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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