List of school districts in Nebraska

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The following is a list of school districts in Nebraska:

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)
  • Class 8 (State-operated school districts)

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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3] 6,604 school districts remained in the 1950-1951 school year.[4]

Post-World War II de-ruralization meant that school district populations declined further, with a large number consolidated in the 1950s and 1960s.[2]

In 1990 there were 812 school districts. In 2004 this was down to 501,[4] and later that year the number of school districts went below 500.[2]

List of schools[edit]

ESU #1[edit]

Cedar County[edit]

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]

Jefferson County[edit]

Thayer County[edit]

ESU #6[edit]

Fillmore County[edit]

Lancaster County[edit]

Saline County[edit]

Seward County[edit]

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]

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]

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]

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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]

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]

ESU #19[edit]

Douglas County[edit]

Former school districts[edit]

Listed by date of dissolution: [8]

1991[edit]

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]

2007[edit]

2008[edit]

2009[edit]

2010[edit]

2011[edit]

2014[edit]

2017[edit]

2020[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ admin (February 8, 2018). "Several school classifications eliminated". Unicameral Update. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Nordby, Barbara (June 4, 2004). "School's out forever". Lincoln Journal Star. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b 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.
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  8. ^ "SCHOOL FINANCE AND ORGANIZATION SERVICES CUMULATIVE DISTRICT DISSOLUTIONS - 1990/91 thru 2021/22" (PDF). Nebraska Department of Education. Retrieved November 27, 2022.

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