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Walthill, Nebraska - 2 schools
An equity score of 72/100 ranks Walthill Public Schools #24 of 200 districts in Nebraska (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $25,649 per pupil, Walthill Public Schools ranks #15 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending (Nebraska districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Walthill Public Schools operates 2 public schools serving 281 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 Thurston County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,649 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 25 of 244 Nebraska districts by per-pupil spending. See how Nebraska compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 19.8% local, 49.6% state, and 30.6% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 72/100, ranked #24 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 234.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 85.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 2.2% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Walthill Elementary School, enrolling 159 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Walthill Elementary School accounts for 51.3% of all Walthill Public Schools student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Walthill Public Schools a distant remainder — means Walthill Public Schools-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.
Walthill Public Schools student-counselor ratio is 235:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Walthill Public Schools chronic absenteeism rate is 85.5% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.