SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary campus in LINCOLN, Nebraska, overseen by LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school hosts 352 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% bigger than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

Across the 67 schools in LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS (42,301 students total), SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest looks like 10% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Lancaster County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 18% of students at SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Lancaster County's rate of about 32%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.0%, the actual is 74.4%, a residual of +4.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Lancaster County indicate median household income runs about $74,793, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Lancaster County runs 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,123 students), of which SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is LINCOLN SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 27% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 352).

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