WESTERN HILLS MAGNET CENTER

Set in OMAHA, Nebraska, WESTERN HILLS MAGNET CENTER is a moderately sized elementary school, run under OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It hosts 377 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so WESTERN HILLS MAGNET CENTER sits 39% larger than that benchmark.

OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 94 schools with combined enrollment of 52,524 students; WESTERN HILLS MAGNET CENTER is among them.

In terms of who attends, WESTERN HILLS MAGNET CENTER records that the most-represented group is White (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 31% Black, 19% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, WESTERN HILLS MAGNET CENTER has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Douglas County put the typical household earns roughly $80,391 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. WESTERN HILLS MAGNET CENTER is one of 207 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students).

Nearest neighbor: LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 53%: 247 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 39% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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