WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized primary schools in NORFOLK, Nebraska, operated by NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 227 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,543 students; WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school lists 33% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 70% of students at WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Madison County (around 47%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,128, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 23 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 6,196 students).

NORFOLK JR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 257 (now 227). Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.