STANDING BEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

STANDING BEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of substantial scale in OMAHA, Nebraska, operated by OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, enrolling 623 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so STANDING BEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 129% above that benchmark.

Within OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 94 schools and 52,524 students, STANDING BEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, STANDING BEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 14% Black, 13% Asian, 11% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average.

Across the wider county, Douglas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,391 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Douglas County runs 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), of which STANDING BEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SADDLEBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STANDING BEAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has grew 10%, going from 568 students in 2018 to 623 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 62% to 53% over that span.

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