OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in OSCEOLA, Nebraska, part of OSCEOLA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 120 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 56% below the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

OSCEOLA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 250 students; OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (81%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.

Looking at school resources, OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Nebraska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 67.9%; OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 56.8%, -11.2 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,768 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Polk County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,118 students), of which OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 67.5%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 4%, going from 125 students in 2018 to 120 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 94% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.