Lincoln Public Schools
Lexington and Schuyler Graduate Nearly 9 in 10 Hispanic Students. Nebraska's Statewide Gap Has Still Grown.
In 2012, when Nebraska first published four-year graduation rates by race, white students finished at 91% and Hispanic students at 78%. The 13-point gap was large but conceivably closeable.
Three in Five Nebraska Districts Have Fewer Than 500 Students
> Correction (2026-05-29): An earlier version of this article ran under the headline "Three-Quarters of Nebraska's Districts Have Fewer Than 500 Students" and reported 310 of 422 districts under 500 s...
Three Omaha Suburbs Have Grown Every Year for 21 Years
> Correction (2026-05-29): An earlier version of this article said three suburbs accounted for 43.9% of statewide enrollment growth (now 39.6%), that they enrolled 1.9% of the state's students in 2005...
Lincoln Public Schools' Chronic Absenteeism Has Risen Every Year Since 2020
Every other major school district in Nebraska peaked in 2022 and started the slow crawl back toward normal. Lincoln Public Schools has done the opposite.
Three Counties Now Enroll 55% of Nebraska's Students
> Correction (2026-05-29): An earlier version of this article said three counties enroll 56.0% of Nebraska's students (up from 50.5% in 2005), that metro districts gained 40,015 students while the res...
Lincoln Public Schools Loses Students for the First Time in a Generation
> Correction (2026-05-29): An earlier version of this article cited a statewide enrollment decline of 2,226 students and a Nebraska total of 418 districts. The Nebraska Department of Education file we...
Nebraska Survived COVID. Then the Real Decline Started.
> Correction (2026-05-29): An earlier version of this article cited a 2025 all-time high of 367,549 students, a 2026 enrollment of 365,323, and a 2026 decline of 2,226 students. The Nebraska Departmen...
Nearly One in Four Nebraska Students Is Now Hispanic
> Correction (2026-05-29): An earlier version of this article cited Hispanic enrollment of 32,373 in 2005, 80,409 in 2025, a 46,586-student total growth, and a 1,450-student 2026 decline. The Nebraska...
Nebraska's Kindergarten Class Is Back to Its 2005 Trough
> Correction (2026-05-29): An earlier version of this article ran under the headline "Nebraska's Smallest K Class in 22 Years" and reported a kindergarten enrollment of 24,170 in 2025-26 and a 2005 ba...
Omaha Public Schools: From Half White to One in Five
> Correction (2026-05-29): An earlier version of this article cited a statewide white share of 62.4% and a 42-point district-vs-state gap. Those figures came from a data file that pooled public, non-p...