NEIHARDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in OMAHA, Nebraska, NEIHARDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a heavily attended elementary campus, one of the schools within MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It works with 489 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 80% bigger than the state mean of about 272.

Across the 34 schools in MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS (23,253 students total), NEIHARDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, NEIHARDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Douglas County (around 25%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, NEIHARDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 63.5%; actual is 53.8%, a gap of -9.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Douglas County shows median household earnings sit near $80,391, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Douglas County runs 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), of which NEIHARDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NEIHARDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. NEIHARDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 24% since 2018, when it stood at 646 (now 489). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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