PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in LEXINGTON, Nebraska, one of the schools within LEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 312 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 5.

LEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,242 students. PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 14% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Dawson County as a whole is about 37% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 81% of students at PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Dawson County's rate of about 61%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.9%; actual is 39.5%, a gap of -8.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dawson County put median household earnings sit near $69,880, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Dawson County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,509 students), PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LEXINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PERSHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 20%: 261 students in 2018 compared to 312 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 9% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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