1,119 schools in Nebraska

94 counties · 283 cities · Public K-12

Nebraska sits at 1,119 public K-12 schools in the most recent NCES counts, an average of roughly 12 per county. The county and city tabs below partition the directory for browsing.

Residents

1,978,707

all ages · ACS 5-yr

Students

332,340

public K-12 · NCES

Schools

1,119

public K-12

Counties

283 cities

Largest by enrollment

GRAND ISLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLGrand Island2,696 students CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLOmaha2,587 students MILLARD NORTH HIGH SCHOOLOmaha2,572 students

Excludes virtual / online schools.

Largest district

OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS52,524 students · 94 schools

Test scores

Reading, SY 2024-25. State average: 57.6% met or exceeded.

Top 5 schools

1.BLUE SAGE ELEMENTARY
ELKHORN
89.3%
2.ALDRICH ELEMENTARY
OMAHA
88.6%
3.SPRING RIDGE ELEMENTARY
OMAHA
86.9%
4.SKYLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ELKHORN
84.3%
5.FIRE RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ELKHORN
83.9%

Lowest 5 schools

1.MOCKINGBIRD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OMAHA
21.2%
2.BELVEDERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OMAHA
22.4%
3.MONROE MIDDLE SCHOOL
OMAHA
22.5%
4.MC MILLAN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL
OMAHA
23.6%
5.NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL
OMAHA
23.9%

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Cities

Most schools A-Z

Adams2 schools Ainsworth4 schools Albion3 schools Allen2 schools Alliance5 schools Alma2 schools Amherst2 schools Ansley2 schools Arapahoe2 schools Arcadia2 schools Arlington2 schools Arnold2 schools Arthur2 schools Ashland4 schools Atkinson3 schools Auburn5 schools Aurora4 schools Axtell2 schools Bancroft2 schools Bartlett2 schools Bartley2 schools Bassett2 schools Battle Creek2 schools Bayard2 schools Beatrice8 schools Bellevue29 schools Bellwood1 schools Benkelman2 schools Bennet1 schools Bennington9 schools Bertrand2 schools Big Springs2 schools Bladen1 schools Blair6 schools Bloomfield2 schools Blue Hill2 schools Blue Spring1 schools Blue Springs1 schools Boys Town3 schools Brady2 schools Brainard2 schools Bridgeport3 schools Broken Bow5 schools Bruning2 schools Burwell2 schools Butte1 schools Cairo2 schools Callaway2 schools Cambridge3 schools Cedar Bluffs3 schools Cedar Rapids2 schools Central City3 schools Ceresco1 schools Chadron5 schools Chambers2 schools Chappell4 schools Clarks1 schools Clarkson2 schools Clearwater1 schools Cody3 schools Coleridge1 schools Columbus15 schools Cook2 schools Cozad4 schools Crawford2 schools Creighton2 schools Crete6 schools Crofton2 schools Culbertson1 schools Curtis3 schools Dakota City1 schools Dalton1 schools Davenport2 schools David City2 schools Daykin2 schools Deshler3 schools Dewitt2 schools Diller1 schools Dix1 schools Dodge1 schools Doniphan2 schools Dorchester2 schools Dunning1 schools Dwight1 schools Eagle1 schools Elba2 schools Elgin2 schools Elkhorn11 schools Elm Creek2 schools Elmwood1 schools Elwood2 schools Emerson3 schools Eustis2 schools Ewing2 schools Exeter3 schools Fairbury3 schools Fairfield7 schools Fairmont1 schools Falls City4 schools Firth4 schools Fort Calhoun2 schools Franklin3 schools Fremont15 schools Friend2 schools Fullerton2 schools Geneva2 schools Genoa2 schools Gering7 schools Gibbon2 schools Giltner2 schools Gordon2 schools Gothenburg3 schools Grand Island28 schools Grant2 schools Greeley2 schools Gretna6 schools Gurley1 schools Halsey1 schools Hampton2 schools Harrisburg3 schools Harrison2 schools Hartington2 schools Harvard3 schools Hastings14 schools Hay Springs4 schools Hayes Center2 schools Hebron2 schools Hemingford2 schools Henderson2 schools Hershey2 schools Hildreth1 schools Holdrege4 schools Homer2 schools Hooper2 schools Howells2 schools Humboldt3 schools Humphrey2 schools Hyannis2 schools Imperial3 schools Indianola1 schools Jackson1 schools Johnson3 schools Juniata1 schools Kearney16 schools Kenesaw2 schools Kilgore1 schools Kimball2 schools La Vista5 schools Laurel2 schools Lavista3 schools Lawrence2 schools Leigh2 schools Lewiston2 schools Lexington8 schools Lincoln83 schools Lindsay1 schools Litchfield2 schools Loomis2 schools Louisville3 schools Loup City2 schools Lynch1 schools Lyons2 schools Macy3 schools Madison5 schools Malcolm2 schools Marsland1 schools Maxwell2 schools Maywood2 schools Mc Cook5 schools Mccook1 schools Mccool Junction2 schools Mead2 schools Merna2 schools Milford2 schools Minatare5 schools Minden3 schools Mitchell3 schools Morrill4 schools Mullen3 schools Murdock1 schools Murray2 schools Nebraska City5 schools Neligh3 schools Nelson5 schools Newman Grove2 schools Niobrara5 schools Norfolk13 schools North Bend3 schools North Platte12 schools O'Neill2 schools Oakland2 schools Odell1 schools Ogallala3 schools Omaha189 schools Ord2 schools Osceola3 schools Oshkosh2 schools Osmond2 schools Overton2 schools Oxford2 schools Palmer2 schools Palmyra2 schools Papillion17 schools Pawnee City2 schools Paxton2 schools Pender2 schools Pierce2 schools Plainview2 schools Platte Center1 schools Plattsmouth4 schools Pleasanton2 schools Polk1 schools Ponca2 schools Potter1 schools Ralston4 schools Randolph2 schools Ravenna2 schools Raymond3 schools Red Cloud2 schools Richland1 schools Roseland1 schools Rushville2 schools Sargent2 schools Schuyler7 schools Scotia1 schools Scottsbluff13 schools Scribner2 schools Seward3 schools Shelby3 schools Shelton2 schools Shickley2 schools Sidney6 schools So Sioux City7 schools Spalding2 schools Spencer2 schools Springfield3 schools Springview2 schools St Edward2 schools St Libory1 schools St Paul2 schools Stanton2 schools Stapleton2 schools Sterling2 schools Stromsburg3 schools Stuart2 schools Sumner2 schools Superior3 schools Sutherland2 schools Sutton2 schools Syracuse3 schools Taylor2 schools Tecumseh2 schools Tekamah2 schools Thedford2 schools Tilden2 schools Trenton1 schools Tryon2 schools Utica3 schools Valentine1 schools Valentine4 schools Valley4 schools Valparaiso1 schools Verdigre2 schools Wahoo4 schools Wakefield2 schools Wallace2 schools Walthill2 schools Wauneta3 schools Wausa2 schools Waverly4 schools Wayne5 schools Weeping Water3 schools West Point3 schools Wilber3 schools Wilcox2 schools Winnebago2 schools Winside2 schools Wisner2 schools Wood River3 schools Wymore1 schools Wynot3 schools York4 schools Yutan2 schools

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