OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in OVERTON, Nebraska, OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an intimate elementary campus, run under OVERTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It hosts 167 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 39% leaner than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

Across the 2 schools in OVERTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS (285 students total), OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest looks like 14% Hispanic. By comparison, Dawson County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Dawson County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.7%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dawson County put median household income runs about $69,880, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Dawson County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,509 students), OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

OVERTON HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 56.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. OVERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 183 (now 167). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 90% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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