SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS

SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS is one of the very small K-5 schools in BIG SPRINGS, Nebraska, overseen by SOUTH PLATTE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 103 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS sits 62% below that benchmark.

SOUTH PLATTE PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 211 students. SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 16% Hispanic.

On the resource side, SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Deuel County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,096 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Deuel County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 405 students), of which SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS is one.

SOUTH PLATTE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus.

SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. SO PLATTE ELEM AT BIG SPRINGS's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 111 (now 103). Over the same period, the White share declined from 87% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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