SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SUTHERLAND, Nebraska, SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school, run under SUTHERLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It hosts 164 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 40% below the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 272 students.

SUTHERLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 283 students; SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Lincoln County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.4%; this one delivers 56.2%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Lincoln County put the typical household earns roughly $65,148 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 22 public schools in Lincoln County (combined enrollment of about 5,190 students).

The closest other public school is SUTHERLAND HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 66.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 14%, going from 190 students in 2018 to 164 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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