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 largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
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 reports 82.8% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.