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.
Nebraska school district classification
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 6âÂÂ12; 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.
All unlabeled districts on this list are class 3; others will be specified.
History
The highest number of school districts the state ever had was over 7,000. 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. 6,604 school districts remained in the 1950-1951 school year.
Post-World War II de-ruralization meant that school district populations declined further, with a large number consolidated in the 1950s and 1960s.
In 1990 there were 812 school districts. In 2004 this was down to 501, and later that year the number of school districts went below 500.
List of schools
- Valentine Community Schools
- Gordon-Rushville Public Schools
- Sioux County Public Schools
- Garden County Schools
- Hyannis Area Schools
- Mullen Public Schools
- Ainsworth Community Schools
- Dundy County Public Schools
- Rock County Public Schools
- Hemingford Public Schools
- Sandhills Public Schools
- West Holt Public Schools
- Alliance Public Schools
- McPherson County Schools
- Perkins County Schools
- Banner County Public Schools
- Keya Paha County Schools
- Chase County Schools
- Arthur County Schools
- Thedford Public Schools
- Chadron Public Schools
- Kimball Public Schools
- Bridgeport Public Schools
- Southwest Public Schools
- O'Neill Public Schools
- Wheeler Central Schools
- Stapleton Public Schools
- Nebraska Unified District
- Southern Valley Schools
- Creek Valley Schools
- Loup County Public Schools
- Cody-Kilgore Public Schools
- Burwell Public Schools
- Hayes Center Public Schools
- Leyton Public Schools
- Ogallala Public Schools
- Potter-Dix Public Schools
- South Central Nebraska School District
- Anselmo-Merna Public Schools
- Broken Bow Public Schools
- Wallace Public School District
- Arnold Public Schools
- Wauneta-Palisade Public Schools
- Ord Public Schools
- West Boyd Public Schools
- Callaway Public Schools
- Boone Central Schools
- Humboldt Table Rock Steinauer Public Schools
- Maywood Public Schools
- Hitchcock County School System
- Eustis-Farnam Public Schools
- Paxton Consolidated Schools
- Fairbury Public Schools
- Chambers Public Schools
- Loup City Public Schools
- Crawford Public Schools
- South Platte Public Schools
- Hershey Public Schools
- Minden Public Schools
- Franklin Public Schools
- Adams Central Public Schools
- Maxwell Public Schools
- Centennial Public Schools
- Gothenburg Public Schools
- Arapahoe Public Schools
- Medicine Valley Public Schools
- Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schools
- Hay Springs Public Schools
- David City Public Schools
- Falls City Public Schools
- Schuyler Community Schools
- Sargent Public Schools
- Twin Rivers Public Schools
- Silver Lake Public Schools
- Greeley-Wolbach Public Schools
- Sidney Public Schools
- Sutherland Public Schools
- Johnson County Central Public Schools
- Wilcox-Hildreth Public Schools
- Thayer Central Community Schools
ESU #1
Cedar County
Dakota County
Dixon County
Knox County
Thurston County
Wayne County
ESU #2
Burt County
Cuming County
Dodge County
Lancaster County
Saunders County
ESU #3
Cass County
Douglas County
Sarpy County
Washington County
ESU #4
Johnson County
Nemaha County
Otoe County
Pawnee County
Richardson County
ESU #5
Gage County
Jefferson County
Thayer County
ESU #6
Fillmore County
Lancaster County
Saline County
Seward County
York County
ESU #7
Boone County
Butler County
Colfax County
Merrick County
Nance County
Platte County
Polk County
ESU #8
Antelope County
Boyd County
Holt County
Madison County
Pierce County
Stanton County
- Stanton Community Schools #3
Wheeler County
ESU #9
Adams County
Clay County
Hall County
Hamilton County
Nuckolls County
Webster County
ESU #10
Blaine County
Boone County
- Riverside Public Schools #75
Buffalo County
Custer County
Dawson County
Garfield County
- Burwell Public Schools #100
Greeley County
- Central Valley Public Schools #60
Hall County
Howard County
Loup County
Sherman County
- Litchfield Public Schools #15
- Loup City Public Schools #1
Valley County
ESU #11
Franklin County
Frontier County
Furnas County
Gosper County
Harlan County
Kearney County
Phelps County
ESU #13
Banner County
Deuel County
Box Butte County
Cheyenne County
Dawes County
Garden County
Kimball County
Morrill County
Scotts Bluff County
Sheridan County
Sioux County
- Sioux County Schools #500
ESU #15
Chase County
Frontier County
Dundy County
Hayes County
Hitchcock County
Red Willow County
ESU #16
Arthur County
Deuel County
Grant County
Hooker County
Keith County
Lincoln County
Logan County
McPherson County
- McPherson County Schools #90
Perkins County
Thomas County
ESU #17
Brown County
Cherry County
Keya Paha County
Rock County
ESU #18
Lancaster County
ESU #19
Douglas County
Former school districts
Listed by date of dissolution:
1991
1992
1993
1994
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2014
2017
2020
See also
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