PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a very small K-5 school in PAXTON, Nebraska, overseen by PAXTON CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS, teaches 94 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 65% smaller than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by PAXTON CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS, a district that teaches 199 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that nearly all students (81%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 17% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 33% of students at PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Keith County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Keith County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,645, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Keith County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 965 students), PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 61.5%.

PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PAXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 25%, going from 125 students in 2018 to 94 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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