RAYMOND CENTRAL PRESCHOOL

As a rural-scale elementary school in RAYMOND, Nebraska, RAYMOND CENTRAL PRESCHOOL works with 48 students from grade pre-K, run under RAYMOND CENTRAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so RAYMOND CENTRAL PRESCHOOL sits 82% below that benchmark.

RAYMOND CENTRAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 723 students; RAYMOND CENTRAL PRESCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, RAYMOND CENTRAL PRESCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 32.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting RAYMOND CENTRAL PRESCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 6% of students at RAYMOND CENTRAL PRESCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Lancaster County's rate of about 32%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lancaster County put the typical household earns roughly $74,793 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Lancaster County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,123 students), RAYMOND CENTRAL PRESCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. RAYMOND CENTRAL PRESCHOOL's enrollment has climbed 55% since 2018, when it stood at 31 (now 48). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 100% to 90%. Class-load math has widened: from 31.0:1 in 2018 to 32.0:1 in 2025.

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