SHELTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SHELTON, Nebraska, SHELTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small K-5 school, part of SHELTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It educates 159 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so SHELTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

SHELTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 276 students. SHELTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, SHELTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest consists of 24% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SHELTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at SHELTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, census data for Buffalo County shows median household earnings sit near $75,911, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Buffalo County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,449 students), SHELTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. SHELTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 151 (now 159). Over the same period, the White share declined from 82% to 72%.

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