LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a modestly sized elementary school in LEIGH, Nebraska, run under LEIGH COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 201 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 272.

Within LEIGH COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 296 students, LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 51% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Colfax County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Nebraska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 68.7%; LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 59.0%, -9.7 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Colfax County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,530, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Colfax County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,762 students), LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LEIGH HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.6%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. LEIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 30% since 2018, when it stood at 155 (now 201). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.