PIERCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PIERCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school in PIERCE, Nebraska, run under PIERCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school works with 338 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 24% above the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

PIERCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 678 students; PIERCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PIERCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Hispanic. Compared to Pierce County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PIERCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting PIERCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PIERCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.2%.

In the broader community, Pierce County reports that median household income runs about $72,357, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. PIERCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 6 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 1,222 students).

PIERCE JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, PIERCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 342 students in 2018 compared to 338 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 1% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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