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 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.
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. - Cited: 6A. - See clipping of first and of second page at Newspapers.com. 6,604 school districts remained in the 1950-1951 school year. - Clipping of first (text detail A and text detail B) and of second page (text detail A and text detail B) from Newspapers.com.
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
Hartington-Newcastle Public Schools #8 Laurel-Concord-Coleridge Public Schools #54 Randolph Public Schools #45 Wynot Public Schools #101
Dakota County
Homer Community Schools #31 South Sioux City Community Schools #11
Dixon County
Allen Consolidated Schools #70 Emerson-Hubbard Public Schools #561 Ponca Public Schools #1
Knox County
Bloomfield Community Schools #586 Creighton Public Schools #13 Crofton Community Schools #96 Niobrara Public Schools #501 Santee Community Schools #505 Verdigre Public Schools #583 Wausa Public Schools #576
Thurston County
Pender Public Schools #1 Umo N Ho N Nation Public Schools #16 Walthill Public Schools #13 Wauneta-Palisade Public Schools Winnebago Public Schools #17
Wayne County
Wakefield Public Schools #560 Wayne Community Schools #17 Winside Public Schools #595
ESU #2 Burt County
Lyons-Decatur Northeast Schools #20 Oakland-Craig Public Schools #14 Tekamah-Herman Community Schools #1
Cuming County
Bancroft-Rosalie Community Schools #20 West Point Public Schools #1 Wisner-Pilger Public Schools #30
Dodge County
Fremont Public Schools #1 Logan View Public Schools #594 North Bend Central Schools #595 Scribner-Snyder Community Schools #62
Lancaster County Raymond Central Schools #161
Saunders County
Ashland-Greenwood Schools #1 Cedar Bluffs Public Schools #107 Mead Public Schools #72 Wahoo Public Schools #39 Yutan Public Schools #9
ESU #3 Cass County
Conestoga Public Schools #56 Elmwood-Murdock Public Schools #97 Louisville Public Schools #32 Plattsmouth Community Schools #1 Weeping Water Public Schools #22
Douglas County
Bennington Public Schools #59 Douglas County West Community Schools #15 Elkhorn Public Schools #10 Millard Public Schools #17 Ralston Public Schools #54 Westside Community Schools #66
Sarpy County
Bellevue Public Schools #1 Gretna Public Schools #37 Papillion-La Vista Public Schools #27 Springfield Platteview Community Schools #46
Washington County
Arlington Public Schools #24 Blair Community Schools #1 Fort Calhoun Community Schools #3
ESU #4 Johnson County
Johnson County Central Public Schools #50 Sterling Public Schools #33
Nemaha County
Auburn Public Schools #29 Johnson-Brock Public Schools #23
Otoe County
Nebraska City Public Schools #11 Palmyra District #501 Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca Schools #27
Pawnee County
Lewiston Consolidated Schools #69 Pawnee City Public Schools #1
Richardson County
Falls City Public Schools #56 Humboldt/Table Rock Steinauer #70
ESU #5 Gage County
Beatrice Public Schools #15 Diller-Odell Public Schools #100 Freeman Public Schools #34 Southern School District 1
Jefferson County
Fairbury Public Schools #8 Meridian Public Schools #303 Tri-County Public Schools #300
Thayer County
Bruning-Davenport Unified System #1 Deshler Public Schools #60 Thayer Central Community Schools #70
ESU #6 Fillmore County
Exeter-Milligan Public Schools #1 Fillmore Central Public Schools #25 Shickley Public Schools #54
Lancaster County
Malcolm Public Schools #148 Norris School District 160 Waverly School District 145
Saline County
Crete Public Schools #2 Dorchester Public Schools #44 Friend Public Schools #68 Wilber-Clatonia Public Schools #82
Seward County
Centennial Public Schools #567 Milford Public Schools #5 Seward Public Schools #9
York County
Heartland Community School #96 McCool Junction Public Schools #83 York Public Schools #12
ESU #7 Boone County
Boone Central Schools #1 St. Edward Public Schools #17
Butler County
David City Public Schools #56 East Butler Public Schools #502
Colfax County
Clarkson Public Schools #58 Howells-Dodge Consolidated Schools #70 Leigh Community Schools #39 Schuyler Community Schools #123
Merrick County
Central City Public Schools #4 Palmer Public Schools #49
Nance County
Fullerton Public Schools #1 Twin River Public Schools #30
Platte County
Columbus Public Schools #1 Humphrey Public Schools #67 Lakeview Community Schools #5
Polk County
Cross County Community Schools #15 High Plains Community Schools #75 Osceola Public Schools #19 Shelby-Rising City Public Schools #32
ESU #8 Antelope County
Elgin Public Schools #18 Neligh-Oakdale Schools #9 Summerland Public Schools #115
Boyd County Boyd County Unified #51
Holt County
Chambers Public Schools #137 O'Neill Public Schools #7 Stuart Public Schools #44 Summerland Public Schools West Holt Public Schools #239
Madison County
Battle Creek Public Schools #5 Elkhorn Valley Schools #80 Madison Public Schools #1 Newman Grove Public Schools #13 Norfolk Public Schools #2
Pierce County
Osmond Public Schools #542 Pierce Public Schools #2 Plainview Public Schools #5
Stanton County Stanton Community Schools #3
Wheeler County Wheeler Central Schools #45
ESU #9 Adams County
Adams Central Schools #90 Hastings Public Schools #18 Kenesaw Public Schools #3 Silver Lake Public Schools #123
Clay County
Harvard Public Schools #11 Sutton Public Schools #2
Hall County Doniphan-Trumbull Public Schools #126
Hamilton County
Aurora Public Schools #504 Giltner Public Schools #2 Hampton Public Schools #91
Nuckolls County South Central Nebraska Unified System 5 Superior Public Schools #11
Webster County
Blue Hill Public Schools #74 Red Cloud Community Schools #2
ESU #10 Blaine County Sandhills Public Schools #71
Boone County Riverside Public Schools #75
Buffalo County
Amherst Public Schools #119 Elm Creek Public Schools #9 Gibbon Public Schools #2 Kearney Public Schools #7 Pleasanton Public Schools #105 Ravenna Public Schools #69 Shelton Public Schools #19
Custer County
Anselmo-Merna Public Schools #15 Ansley Public Schools #44 Arnold Public Schools #89 Broken Bow Public Schools #25 Callaway Public Schools #180 Sargent Public Schools #84
Dawson County
Cozad City Schools #11 Gothenburg Public Schools #20 Lexington Public Schools #1 Overton Public Schools #4 Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schools #101
Garfield County Burwell Public Schools #100
Greeley County Central Valley Public Schools #60
Hall County
Grand Island Public Schools #2 Northwest Public Schools #82 Wood River Rural Schools #83
Howard County
Centura Public School #100 Elba Public Schools #103 St. Paul Public Schools #1
Loup County Loup County Public Schools #25
Sherman County
Litchfield Public Schools #15 Loup City Public Schools #1
Valley County
Arcadia Public Schools #21 Ord Public Schools #5
ESU #11 Franklin County Franklin Public Schools #506
Frontier County Eustis-Farnam Public Schools #95
Furnas County
Arapahoe Public Schools #18 Cambridge Public Schools #21 Southern Valley Schools #540
Gosper County Elwood Public Schools #30
Harlan County Alma Public Schools #2
Kearney County
Axtell Public Schools #501 Minden Public Schools #503 Wilcox-Hildreth Public Schools #1
Phelps County
Bertrand Public Schools #54 Holdrege Public Schools #44 Loomis Public Schools #55
ESU #13 Banner County Banner County Public Schools #1
Deuel County Creek Valley Schools #25
Box Butte County
Alliance Public Schools #6 Hemingford Public Schools #10
Cheyenne County
Leyton Public Schools #3 Potter-Dix Public Schools #9 Sidney Public Schools #1
Dawes County
Chadron Public Schools #2 Crawford Public Schools #71
Garden County Garden County Schools #1
Kimball County Kimball Public Schools #1
Morrill County
Bayard Public Schools #21 Bridgeport Public Schools #63
Scotts Bluff County
Gering Public Schools #16 Minatare Public Schools #2 Mitchell Public Schools #31 Morrill Public Schools #11 Scottsbluff Public Schools #32
Sheridan County
Gordon-Rushville Public Schools #10 Hay Springs Public Schools #3
Sioux County Sioux County Schools #500
ESU #15 Chase County
Chase County Schools #10