WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in OMAHA, Nebraska, WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large K-5 school, part of MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It hosts 633 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 133% bigger than that benchmark.

WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 34 schools operated by MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that enrolls 23,253 students overall.

On demographics, WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 80%; the rest breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 20% 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, WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.4%, the actual is 74.4%, a residual of +5.0 points.

In the area at large, Douglas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,391 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Douglas County's 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BEADLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 70.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 598 students in 2018 compared to 633 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 88% to 80% over that span.

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