RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a micro-enrollment elementary campus in RICHLAND, Nebraska, RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL caters to 30 students from grades 3 through 5, run under SCHUYLER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. Compared to the state average of about 272 students per school, that is 89% leaner than typical.

Across the 8 schools in SCHUYLER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (2,089 students total), RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). Other groups include 17% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Colfax County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 59.1%, a residual of +6.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Colfax County indicate median household income runs about $82,530, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Colfax County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,762 students), RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CENTENNIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 7.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 53.1%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. RICHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 33 (now 30). The White share of enrollment shrank from 76% to 17% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 6.6:1 in 2024.

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