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Scottsbluff, Nebraska - 5 schools
74
Total Enrollment
5
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Educational Service Unit 13 operates 5 public schools serving 74 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Scotts Bluff County.
The funding mix is 49.2% local, 11.3% state, and 39.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
. Demographically, the student body averages 68.6% Hispanic or Latino, 29.2% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Bridgeport Head Start, with a diversity index of 49.8/100.
Its largest campus is Meridian School, enrolling 25 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Home Based, at 4 students, a 6x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Meridian School accounts for 33.8% of all Educational Service Unit 13 student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Educational Service Unit 13-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Educational Service Unit 13 school enrollment varies 6.3× across entities
Educational Service Unit 13 school enrollment ranges from 4 students (lowest) to 25 students (highest), a spread of 21 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Educational Service Unit 13 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 81.9% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.