WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1003 LILLY ST, in WOOD RIVER, Nebraska, WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary school that educates 224 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by WOOD RIVER RURAL SCHOOLS.

WOOD RIVER RURAL SCHOOLS comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 467 students; WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 26% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Hall County's rate of about 23%.

With demographic context factored in, WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.0%; this one delivers 66.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hall County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,251, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Hall County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,203 students), of which WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

WOOD RIVER RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 68.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WOOD RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 18%, going from 272 students in 2018 to 224 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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