Nebraska Public Schools

Nebraska is the #34 largest school system in the United States, serving 298,276 students across 1,098 public schools. There are 29 Blue Ribbon Schools, and 24 special education schools. The student ethnicity breakdown in the state is show below:

Student by Ethnicity

(NE) School Average
% American Indian		 2%
% Asian		 2%
% Hispanic		 15%
% Black		 6%
% White		 72%
Unknown		 3%

Nebraska Public Schools by County

County
# High
# Middle
# Elementary
1. Adams County 7 2 15
2. Antelope County 5 1 5
3. Arthur County 1 - 1
4. Banner County 1 - 1
5. Blaine County 1 - -
6. Boone County 3 1 4
7. Box Butte County 2 1 4
8. Boyd County 2 1 2
9. Brown County 1 1 2
10. Buffalo County 9 3 18
11. Burt County 3 1 3
12. Butler County 3 - 5
13. Cass County 6 2 7
14. Cedar County 5 3 5
15. Chase County 3 1 2
16. Cherry County 2 1 14
17. Cheyenne County 4 4 3
18. Clay County 3 - 5
19. Colfax County 4 1 8
20. Cuming County 3 2 4
21. Custer County 6 1 9
22. Dakota County 5 2 11
23. Dawes County 3 1 7
24. Dawson County 6 2 11
25. Deuel County 2 - 2
26. Dixon County 4 1 4
27. Dodge County 7 3 15
28. Douglas County 34 35 122
29. Dundy County 1 - 2
30. Fillmore County 4 2 4
31. Franklin County 1 1 1
32. Frontier County 3 - 3
33. Furnas County 4 1 4
34. Gage County 5 1 6
35. Garden County 1 1 1
36. Garfield County 1 - 2
37. Gosper County 1 - 1
38. Grant County 1 - 1
39. Greeley County 3 1 3
40. Hall County 8 7 23
41. Hamilton County 3 1 4
42. Harlan County 1 - 1
43. Hayes County 1 - 1
44. Hitchcock County 1 - 3
45. Holt County 6 1 9
46. Hooker County 1 - 1
47. Howard County 2 1 3
48. Jefferson County 3 1 5
49. Johnson County 2 2 3
50. Kearney County 4 2 4
51. Keith County 2 1 4
52. Keya Paha County 1 - 2
53. Kimball County 1 - 3
54. Knox County 7 - 7
55. Lancaster County 21 14 51
56. Lincoln County 7 2 15
57. Logan County 1 - 1
58. Loup County 1 - 1
59. Madison County 9 6 14
60. Merrick County 2 2 5
61. Morrill County 2 - 2
62. Nance County 2 - 2
63. Nemaha County 3 1 4
64. Nuckolls County 2 - 5
65. Otoe County 4 3 4
66. Pawnee County 2 1 2
67. Perkins County 1 1 1
68. Phelps County 3 1 6
69. Pierce County 3 - 3
70. Platte County 4 3 11
71. Polk County 4 3 3
72. Red Willow County 3 2 2
73. Richardson County 2 1 3
74. Rock County 1 - 3
75. Saline County 5 1 5
76. Sarpy County 11 11 42
77. Saunders County 5 2 9
78. Scotts Bluff County 9 3 17
79. Seward County 3 1 4
80. Sheridan County 2 2 7
81. Sherman County 2 - 2
82. Sioux County 1 - 4
83. Stanton County 1 - 1
84. Thayer County 3 1 5
85. Thomas County 1 - 2
86. Thurston County 4 1 4
87. Valley County 2 - 5
88. Washington County 3 2 7
89. Wayne County 3 2 3
90. Webster County 2 - 5
91. Wheeler County 1 - 1
92. York County 4 2 5

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