NEBRASKA CITY NORTHSIDE ELEM

NEBRASKA CITY NORTHSIDE ELEM is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in NEBRASKA CITY, Nebraska, operated by NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 370 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 2. That puts it 36% larger than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,413 students; NEBRASKA CITY NORTHSIDE ELEM is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NEBRASKA CITY NORTHSIDE ELEM shows that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the resource side, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at NEBRASKA CITY NORTHSIDE ELEM qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Otoe County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Otoe County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,188 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NEBRASKA CITY NORTHSIDE ELEM is one of 10 public schools in Otoe County (combined enrollment of about 2,543 students).

NEBRASKA CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around NEBRASKA CITY NORTHSIDE ELEM.

NEBRASKA CITY NORTHSIDE ELEM operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 415 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 78% to 72% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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