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Sumner, Nebraska - 2 schools
An equity score of 66/100 ranks Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs #45 of 200 districts in Nebraska (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $19,787 per pupil, Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs ranks #63 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending (Nebraska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs operates 2 public schools serving 222 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Dawson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $19,787 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Nebraska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 78.8% local, 14.8% state, and 6.4% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 66/100, ranked #45 of 200 in Nebraska against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 108:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 17.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 79.2% White, 19.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Elementary School at Sumner, enrolling 112 students (52% of the district's total enrollment).
Elementary School at Sumner accounts for 50.5% of all Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs a distant remainder — means Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs-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.
Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs student-counselor ratio is 108:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs chronic absenteeism rate is 17.1% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs is typically wider than the Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schs-aggregate figure suggests.