REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a heavily attended primary school in GRETNA, Nebraska, REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 504 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Compared to the state average of about 272 students per school, that is 85% bigger than typical.

MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 23,253 students; REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Sarpy County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 18% of students at REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.0%; this one delivers 70.0%.

Across the wider county, Sarpy County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,321 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sarpy County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,055 students), REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WHITETAIL CREEK ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), REEDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 70.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 618 students in 2018 compared to 504 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 91% to 81%.

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