LOTHROP MAGNET CENTER

LOTHROP MAGNET CENTER, a large elementary school in OMAHA, Nebraska, one of the schools within OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, serves 431 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so LOTHROP MAGNET CENTER sits 58% bigger than that benchmark.

Within OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 94 schools and 52,524 students, LOTHROP MAGNET CENTER is one campus in the system.

On demographics, LOTHROP MAGNET CENTER lists that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Douglas County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,391 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Douglas County's 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), LOTHROP MAGNET CENTER is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is KING SCIENCE/TECH MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LOTHROP MAGNET CENTER has ticked up 44%, going from 299 students in 2018 to 431 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 66% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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