MEDICINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY

MEDICINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of one-room-style scale in CURTIS, Nebraska, part of MEDICINE VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, instructing 97 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 64% smaller than the state mean of about 272.

MEDICINE VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 200 students; MEDICINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MEDICINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MEDICINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.4%; this one delivers 64.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Frontier County indicate median household income runs about $70,132, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Frontier County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 568 students), of which MEDICINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: MEDICINE VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MEDICINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, MEDICINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 61.0%.

MEDICINE VALLEY ELEMENTARY operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 134 students in 2018 compared to 97 in 2025. The White share of enrollment rose from 84% to 92% over that span.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.