WINDY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WINDY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in KEARNEY, Nebraska, run under KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 259 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 6,066 students. WINDY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, WINDY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school records 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Buffalo County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WINDY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Buffalo County shows median household income runs about $75,911, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. WINDY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 28 public schools in Buffalo County (combined enrollment of about 8,449 students).

HORIZON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WINDY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WINDY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 65.0%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WINDY HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has expanded 4%, going from 250 students in 2018 to 259 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 90% to 86%.

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