List of school districts in Nebraska
The following is a list of school districts in Nebraska:
School districts in Nebraska are independent governments. No public school systems in Nebraska are dependent on other layers of government.[1]
Nebraska school district classification
[edit]Nebraska public school districts are divided into four classes:
- Class 3 (district has 1 to 499,999 inhabitants)
- Class 4 (district has more than 100,000 inhabitants in primary cities; Lincoln Public Schools is the only district in this class)
- Class 5 (district has more than 200,000 inhabitants in metropolitan cities; Omaha Public Schools is the only district in this class)
Three additional classes of Nebraska school districts, Class 1 (grades K-8; affiliated with one or more Class 2-5 districts and/or joined with a Class 6 district for tax purposes) and Class 6 (grades 6–12; was joined with one or more Class 1 districts) were dissolved on June 15, 2006, and Class 2 (district has 1,000 or fewer inhabitants) was dissolved in 2018.[2]
All unlabeled districts on this list are class 3; others will be specified.
History
[edit]The highest number of school districts the state ever had was over 7,000.[3] In 1921 the state legislature passed a law that caused the first wave of school district consolidation. Increased highway transportation and a desire for a strong education in all parts of the state prompted more consolidations. After the law passed 5% of the area school districts closed or merged up to World War II.[4] 6,604 school districts remained in the 1950-1951 school year.[5]
Post-World War II de-ruralization meant that school district populations declined further, with a large number consolidated in the 1950s and 1960s.[3]
In 1990 there were 812 school districts. In 2004 this was down to 501,[5] and later that year the number of school districts went below 500.[3]
List of schools
[edit]- Valentine Community Schools [6][7][8]
- Gordon-Rushville Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Sioux County Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Garden County Schools [6][7][8]
- Hyannis Area Schools [6][7][8]
- Mullen Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Ainsworth Community Schools [6][7][8]
- Dundy County Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Rock County Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Hemingford Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Sandhills Public Schools [6][7][8]
- West Holt Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Alliance Public Schools [6][7][8]
- McPherson County Schools [6][7][8]
- Perkins County Schools [6][7][8]
- Banner County Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Keya Paha County Schools [6][7][8]
- Chase County Schools [6][7][8]
- Arthur County Schools [6][7][8]
- Thedford Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Chadron Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Kimball Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Bridgeport Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Southwest Public Schools [6][7][8]
- O'Neill Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Wheeler Central Schools [6][7][8]
- Stapleton Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Nebraska Unified District [6][7][8]
- Southern Valley Schools [6][7][8]
- Creek Valley Schools [6][7][8]
- Loup County Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Cody-Kilgore Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Burwell Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Hayes Center Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Leyton Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Ogallala Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Potter-Dix Public Schools [6][7][8]
- South Central Nebraska School District [6][7][8]
- Anselmo-Merna Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Broken Bow Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Wallace Public School District [6][7][8]
- Arnold Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Wauneta-Palisade Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Ord Public Schools [6][7][8]
- West Boyd Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Callaway Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Boone Central Schools [6][7][8]
- Humboldt Table Rock Steinauer Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Maywood Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Hitchcock County School System [6][7][8]
- Eustis-Farnam Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Paxton Consolidated Schools [6][7][8]
- Fairbury Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Chambers Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Loup City Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Crawford Public Schools [6][7][8]
- South Platte Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Hershey Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Minden Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Franklin Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Adams Central Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Maxwell Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Centennial Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Gothenburg Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Arapahoe Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Medicine Valley Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schools [6][7][8]
- Hay Springs Public Schools [6][7][8]
- David City Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Falls City Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Schuyler Community Schools [6][7][8]
- Sargent Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Twin Rivers Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Silver Lake Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Greeley-Wolbach Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Sidney Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Sutherland Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Johnson County Central Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Wilcox-Hildreth Public Schools [6][7][8]
- Thayer Central Community Schools [6][7][8]
ESU #1
[edit]Cedar County
[edit]- Hartington-Newcastle Public Schools #8
- Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Public Schools #54
- Randolph Public Schools #45
- Wynot Public Schools #101
Dakota County
[edit]Dixon County
[edit]Knox County
[edit]Thurston County
[edit]Wayne County
[edit]ESU #2
[edit]Burt County
[edit]Cuming County
[edit]Dodge County
[edit]Lancaster County
[edit]Saunders County
[edit]ESU #3
[edit]Cass County
[edit]Douglas County
[edit]Sarpy County
[edit]Washington County
[edit]ESU #4
[edit]Johnson County
[edit]Nemaha County
[edit]Otoe County
[edit]Pawnee County
[edit]Richardson County
[edit]ESU #5
[edit]Gage County
[edit]- Beatrice Public Schools #15
- Diller-Odell Public Schools #100
- Freeman Public Schools #34
- Southern School District 1
Jefferson County
[edit]Thayer County
[edit]ESU #6
[edit]Fillmore County
[edit]Lancaster County
[edit]Saline County
[edit]Seward County
[edit]- Centennial Public Schools #567
- Milford Public Schools #5
- Seward Public Schools #9
York County
[edit]ESU #7
[edit]Boone County
[edit]Butler County
[edit]Colfax County
[edit]Merrick County
[edit]Nance County
[edit]Platte County
[edit]Polk County
[edit]- Cross County Community Schools #15
- High Plains Community Schools #75
- Osceola Public Schools #19
- Shelby-Rising City Public Schools #32
ESU #8
[edit]Antelope County
[edit]Boyd County
[edit]Holt County
[edit]Madison County
[edit]Pierce County
[edit]Stanton County
[edit]- Stanton Community Schools #3
Wheeler County
[edit]ESU #9
[edit]Adams County
[edit]Clay County
[edit]Hall County
[edit]Hamilton County
[edit]- Aurora Public Schools #504
- Giltner Public Schools #2
- Hampton Public Schools #91
Nuckolls County
[edit]Webster County
[edit]ESU #10
[edit]Blaine County
[edit]Boone County
[edit]- Riverside Public Schools #75
Buffalo County
[edit]Custer County
[edit]Dawson County
[edit]Garfield County
[edit]- Burwell Public Schools #100
Greeley County
[edit]- Central Valley Public Schools #60
Hall County
[edit]Howard County
[edit]Loup County
[edit]Sherman County
[edit]- Litchfield Public Schools #15
- Loup City Public Schools #1
Valley County
[edit]ESU #11
[edit]Franklin County
[edit]Frontier County
[edit]Furnas County
[edit]Gosper County
[edit]Harlan County
[edit]Kearney County
[edit]Phelps County
[edit]ESU #13
[edit]Banner County
[edit]Deuel County
[edit]Box Butte County
[edit]Cheyenne County
[edit]Dawes County
[edit]Garden County
[edit]- Garden County Schools #1
Kimball County
[edit]Morrill County
[edit]Scotts Bluff County
[edit]Sheridan County
[edit]Sioux County
[edit]- Sioux County Schools #500
ESU #15
[edit]Chase County
[edit]- Chase County Schools #10
- Wauneta-Palisade Public Schools #536
Frontier County
[edit]Dundy County
[edit]Hayes County
[edit]Hitchcock County
[edit]Red Willow County
[edit]ESU #16
[edit]Arthur County
[edit]Deuel County
[edit]Grant County
[edit]Hooker County
[edit]Keith County
[edit]Lincoln County
[edit]Logan County
[edit]McPherson County
[edit]- McPherson County Schools #90
Perkins County
[edit]Thomas County
[edit]ESU #17
[edit]Brown County
[edit]Cherry County
[edit]Keya Paha County
[edit]Rock County
[edit]- Rock County Schools #100
ESU #18
[edit]Lancaster County
[edit]- Lincoln Public Schools #1 (Class 4)
ESU #19
[edit]Douglas County
[edit]- Omaha Public Schools #1 (Class 5)
Former school districts
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Listed by date of dissolution: [9]
1991
[edit]- Ash Creek Public School
- Centennial Public School (#93-0073-000)
- College Hill Public School
- District 2 Keith County
- District 5 Wayne County
- District 14 Holt County
- District 15 Thurston County
- District 18 Dawson County
- District 22 Box Butte County
- District 27 Keith County
- District 34 Cuming County
- District 36 Stanton County
- District 49 Platte County
- Edison Public School
- Fairview Public School
- Gilchrist Public School
- Hillside Public School
- Inez Valley Public School
- Mascot Public School
- Memphis Public School
- New England Valley School
- Northwest Cherry Public School
- Palisade Public Schools
- Paramount Public School
- Pick Public School
- Pleasant Ridge Public School
- Pleasant Valley Public School
- Riverside Public School
- Sunnyside Public School
- Taylor Public School
- Two Rivers Public School
- Wauneta Public School
- West Olive Public School
- Willis Public School
- Willow Creek Public School
1992
[edit]1993
[edit]1994
[edit]1997
[edit]1998
[edit]1999
[edit]2000
[edit]2001
[edit]2002
[edit]2003
[edit]2004
[edit]2005
[edit]2006
[edit]- Abie Public School
- Arthur Elementary School
- Ayr Public School
- Brownlee Public School
- Buffalo Flats Public School
- Center Public School
- Crookston Public School
- District 15 Adams County
- District 39 Box Butte County
- District 42 Box Butte County
- District 44 Box Butte County
- District 45 Cherry County
- District 65 Buffalo County
- District 83 Cherry County
- Eastpoint Public School
- Elm Creek Public School
- Elsmere Public School
- Evergreen Public School
- Garfield Public School
- Irwin Public School
- Highland Grove Public Schools
- Holstein Public School
- Juniata Elementary School
- Kewanee Public School
- Manley Public School
- Merriman Public School
- Odessa Public School
- Pioneer Public School
- Pleasant Hill Public School
- Raven Public School
- Riverdale Public School
- Shell Creek Public School
- Simeon Public School
- South Akron Public School
- Sparks Public School
- Stone Public School
- Stull Public School
- Sunnyside Public School
- Tri-View Public School
- Valentine City Schools
- Valley View Public School
- Wallace Public School
- Wood Lake Public School
2007
[edit]2008
[edit]2009
[edit]2010
[edit]2011
[edit]2014
[edit]2017
[edit]2020
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Individual State Descriptions: 2022" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved February 9, 2026.
- ↑ admin (February 8, 2018). "Several school classifications eliminated". Unicameral Update. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- 1 2 3 Nordby, Barbara (June 4, 2004). "School's out forever". Lincoln Journal Star. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
- ↑ Nordby, Barbara (October 6, 2003). "Changes are coming fast". Lincoln Journal Star. pp. 1A, 6A. - Cited: 6A. - See clipping of first and of second page at Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 Vannoy, Patti (June 6, 2004). "In a class of her own". Lincoln Journal Star. p. 1C, 2C. - Clipping of first (text detail A and text detail B) and of second page (text detail A and text detail B) from Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 "Nebraska Land Area School District Rank". usa. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 "List of school districts in Nebraska". ballotpedia. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 "Nebraska School Districts". greatschools. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
- ↑ "SCHOOL FINANCE AND ORGANIZATION SERVICES CUMULATIVE DISTRICT DISSOLUTIONS - 1990/91 thru 2021/22" (PDF). Nebraska Department of Education. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
