NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 434 16TH AVE, in SIDNEY, Nebraska, NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary school that serves 161 students (grades 3 through 4), overseen by SIDNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 41% smaller than the state mean of about 272.

SIDNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,141 students; NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cheyenne County (around 46%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.5%; this one delivers 55.4%.

Zooming out to the county, Cheyenne County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,348, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Cheyenne County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,407 students), of which NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SIDNEY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 56.9%.

NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at NORTH WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 21%, going from 203 students in 2018 to 161 in 2024. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 84% to 90% over that span.

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