LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is an elementary campus of tight-knit scale in GURLEY, Nebraska, operated by LEYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, caters to 125 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 54% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in LEYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS (178 students total), LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cheyenne County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.6%; this one delivers 55.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cheyenne County put median household earnings sit near $60,348, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Cheyenne County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,407 students), LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LEYTON HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.0 miles from this campus. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 129 (now 125). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 96% to 84%.

On the community side, members of the LEYTON ELEMENTARY/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.