PERKINS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH
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Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedWhat this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Nebraska's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PERKINS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH
PERKINS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in GRANT, Nebraska, run under PERKINS COUNTY SCHOOLS, with 241 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.
Within PERKINS COUNTY SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 429 students, PERKINS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, PERKINS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 13% Hispanic.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, PERKINS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.7%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Perkins County put median household earnings sit near $72,778, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Perkins County runs 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 429 students), of which PERKINS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH is one.
PERKINS COUNTY JUNIOR- SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PERKINS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 64.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PERKINS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH has edged down 4%, going from 252 students in 2018 to 241 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 91% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.
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