SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an intimate elementary school in SUTTON, Nebraska, part of SUTTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 225 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Within SUTTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 399 students, SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for Clay County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,986 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clay County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,566 students), of which SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 4%: 216 students in 2018 compared to 225 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 75% to 69%.

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