ROPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ROPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a big elementary-level community in LINCOLN, Nebraska, overseen by LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school serves 850 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 213% larger than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

Within LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 67 schools and 42,301 students, ROPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, ROPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 21% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ROPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lancaster County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ROPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of -6.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Lancaster County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,793 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. ROPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 97 public schools in Lancaster County (combined enrollment of about 48,123 students).

LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 892 students in 2018 compared to 850 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 64% to 52% over that span.

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