SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA

SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA, a cozy elementary-level community in INDIANOLA, Nebraska, run under SOUTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS, caters to 172 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA sits 37% smaller than that benchmark.

Within SOUTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 3 schools and 326 students, SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 62.9%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Red Willow County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,697 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA is one of 9 public schools in Red Willow County (combined enrollment of about 1,671 students).

The closest other public school is SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 6.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.2%.

SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY-INDIANOLA operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 159 students in 2018 compared to 172 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 7% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.