NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NE

Best-Resourced Schools in Gering, NE

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

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6
Schools
1,976
Students
51.7/100
Avg Resource Index
21.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gering has more public-school enrollment than 12% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gering's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Gering's 6 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.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Gering's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 91st percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 24-point gap between Gering High School and Gering Early Childhood Program measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 88%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
91st percentile
Teacher staffing
9th percentile

Gering High School accounts for 27.6% of all Gering public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Gering-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. 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

Gering school enrollment varies 5.5× across entities

Gering school enrollment ranges from 99 students (lowest) to 546 students (highest), a spread of 447 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

Gering operates one school district — a single-district system

Gering'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

Gering student-teacher ratio is 21.8:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Gering High School 61
2. Northfield Elementary School 55
3. Gering Junior High School 54
4. Lincoln Elementary School 52
5. Geil Elementary School 51
6. Gering Early Childhood Program 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Gering

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.

  1. 1 Northfield Elementary School 56.1/100
  2. 2 Gering Early Childhood Program 53.5/100
  3. 3 Lincoln Elementary School 53.2/100
  4. 4 Geil Elementary School 49.8/100
  5. 5 Gering High School 48.5/100

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Which Gering school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gering High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gering schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Gering, NE? ▼

Gering has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,976 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.8:1.

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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.