NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools NE

Best-Resourced Schools in Broken Bow, NE

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

5 public K-12 schools in Broken Bow from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

892

Students

40.8/100

Avg Resource Index

16.6:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Broken Bow has more public-school enrollment than 2% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. North Park Elementary School enrolls 42.2% of Broken Bow's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Broken Bow's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 25-point gap between North Park Elementary School and New Discoveries Preschool shows the range hidden by Broken Bow's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment: Top 98%
School count: Top 99%
Resource Index average: 49th percentile
Teacher staffing: 37th percentile

North Park Elementary School accounts for 42.2% of all Broken Bow public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Broken Bow-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Broken Bow school enrollment varies 8.7× across entities

Broken Bow school enrollment ranges from 43 students (lowest) to 376 students (highest), a spread of 333 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Broken Bow operates one school district — a single-district system

Broken Bow's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Broken Bow student-teacher ratio is 16.6:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Broken Bow is typically wider than the Broken Bow-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	North Park Elementary School	50	376	Combined	Broken Bow Public Schools
2.	Broken Bow High School	46	234	high	Broken Bow Public Schools
3.	Broken Bow Middle School	42	166	middle	Broken Bow Public Schools
4.	New Discoveries Preschool	25	73	Combined	Broken Bow Public Schools
5.	Early Childhood Services	-	43	Combined	Broken Bow Public Schools

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Broken Bow

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Broken Bow school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North Park Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Broken Bow schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Broken Bow, NE? ▼

Broken Bow has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 892 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.