Nebraska Education

Nebraska Education

Nebraska Department of Education

Nebraska Commissioner of Education:

Dr. Roger Breed

District/School Information

Length of School Year: A minimum of 400 (K), 1032 (1-8), and 1080 (9-12) school hours are required by Nebraska state law.

Number of Public School Districts: There are 256 public school districts in Nebraska.

Number of Public Schools: There are 1158 public schools in Nebraska. ****

Number of Students Served in Public Schools: There are 292,580 public school students in Nebraska. ****

Number of Teachers in Public Schools: There are 22,057 public school teachers in Nebraska.****

Number of Charter Schools: There are 0 charter schools in Nebraska.

Per Pupil Spending: Nebraska spends $10,583 per pupil in public education. ****

Average Class Size: The average class size In Nebraska is 13.3 students per 1 teacher. ****

% of Title I Schools: 37.0% of schools in Nebraska are Title I Schools.****

% of Student Eligible for Free/Reduced Lunches: 38.4% of students in Nebraska schools are eligible for free/reduced lunches.****

Ethnic/Racial Student Breakdown****

White: 74.6%

Black: 8.1%

Hispanic: 13.5%

Asian/Pacific Islander: 2.1%

American Indian/Alaskan Native: 1.7%

School Assessment Data

Graduation Rate: 83.8% of all students entering high school in Nebraska graduate. **

ACT/SAT rank: 242.2 students per 1000 in Nebraska had a score of 25+ on the ACT or a 1780+ on the SAT. ***

8th grade NAEP assessment scores:****

Math: 284 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Nebraska. The U.S. average was 282.

Reading: 267 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Nebraska. The U.S. average was 261.

% of Students Who Attend College after High School: 65.5% of students in Nebraska go on to attend some level of college. ***

Private Schools

Number of Private Schools: There are 226 private schools in Nebraska.*

Number of Students Served in Private Schools: There are 39,662 private school students in Nebraska.*

Teacher Pay

The average teacher pay for the state of Nebraska was $43,943.33 in 2009.##

Each individual district in the state of Nebraska negotiates teacher salaries and establishes their own teacher salary schedule.

The following is an example of a teacher salary schedule in Nebraska provided by the Grand Island Public School District.

*Data courtesy of Education Bug .

**Data courtesy of New York Times Economix

** *Data courtesy of the NCHEMS Information Center for Higher Education Policy Making and Analysis

****Data courtesy of the National Center for Education Statistics

##Average salary courtesy of Teacher Salary Info