Nebraska · NCES F-33 finance data

Highest Spending Districts in Nebraska

The 50 Nebraska districts that spend the most per student, ranked from NCES F-33 finance data (2022-23). Only districts enrolling 500 or more students are included.

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

The spending picture in one line

Umo N Ho N Nation Public Schs spends $32,260 per student, the most of any Nebraska district listed, against an average of $16,399 across the top 50.

$32,260
top spend (Umo N Ho N Nation Public Schs): $13,932
lowest on this list: 2.3×
spread across the listed districts: 631
students in the top district

#	District	Enrollment	Schools	Per-Pupil $
1	Umo N Ho N Nation Public SchsMacy	631	3	$32,260
2	Winnebago Public Schools District 17Winnebago	629	2	$25,245
3	Valentine Community SchoolsValentine	623	5	$20,396
4	Wood River Rural SchoolsWood River	510	3	$19,212
5	David City Public SchoolsDavid City	676	3	$19,003
6	South Central Nebraska Unified 5Fairfield	714	8	$18,597
7	Bridgeport Public SchoolsBridgeport	506	2	$18,466
8	Gordon-Rushville Public SchsGordon	550	4	$18,058
9	North Bend Central Public SchsNorth Bend	586	3	$17,188
10	Boone Central SchoolsAlbion	649	3	$16,835
11	Central City Public SchoolsCentral City	767	3	$16,699
12	Tekamah-Herman Community SchsTekamah	527	2	$16,588
13	Omaha Public SchoolsOmaha	51,754	111	$16,585
14	West Point Public SchoolsWest Point	728	3	$16,578
15	Ord Public SchoolsOrd	562	2	$16,514
16	Ogallala Public SchoolsOgallala	845	2	$16,428
17	Adams Central Public SchoolsHastings	1,004	3	$16,269
18	Madison Public SchoolsMadison	543	4	$16,239
19	Fairbury Public SchoolsFairbury	909	3	$16,232
20	Raymond Central Public SchoolsRaymond	742	5	$16,167
21	Springfield Platteview Community SchoolsSpringfield	1,203	4	$16,081
22	Conestoga Public SchoolsMurray	709	2	$16,054
23	O'neill Public SchoolsO'neill	829	2	$16,000
24	Falls City Public SchoolsFalls City	880	4	$15,981
25	Douglas Co West Community SchsValley	1,053	4	$15,835
26	Aurora Public SchoolsAurora	1,226	4	$15,684
27	Holdrege Public SchoolsHoldrege	1,014	4	$15,573
28	Wakefield Public SchoolsWakefield	567	2	$15,531
29	Minden Public SchoolsMinden	820	3	$15,485
30	Chadron Public SchoolsChadron	941	4	$15,412
31	Westside Community SchoolsOmaha	6,271	14	$15,352
32	Fillmore Central Public SchsGeneva	609	3	$15,223
33	Arlington Public SchoolsArlington	691	2	$15,096
34	Logan View Public SchoolsHooper	590	2	$15,086
35	Cozad Community SchoolsCozad	949	4	$15,054
36	Wahoo Public SchoolsWahoo	1,085	4	$14,969
37	Hershey Public SchoolsHershey	557	2	$14,962
38	Chase County SchoolsImperial	625	2	$14,899
39	Gothenburg Public SchoolsGothenburg	847	3	$14,830
40	Gibbon Public SchoolsGibbon	554	2	$14,630
41	Mitchell Public SchoolsMitchell	620	3	$14,595
42	Wilber-Clatonia Public SchoolsWilber	624	3	$14,564
43	So Sioux City Community SchsSo Sioux City	3,783	8	$14,558
44	Malcolm Public SchoolsMalcolm	644	2	$14,376
45	Yutan Public SchoolsYutan	506	2	$14,375
46	Lakeview Community SchoolsColumbus	952	4	$14,092
47	Plattsmouth Community SchoolsPlattsmouth	1,504	4	$14,084
48	Lexington Public SchoolsLexington	3,221	8	$14,074
49	Bellevue Public SchoolsBellevue	9,498	21	$13,985
50	Northwest Public SchoolsGrand Island	1,465	5	$13,932

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Methodology

Per-pupil expenditure data comes from the NCES F-33 Finance Survey. Only districts with 500 or more students are included to ensure meaningful comparisons. Spending figures include all current operational expenditures divided by total enrollment.

Per-pupil spending figures come from the National Center for Education Statistics F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2022-23, the federal government's annual census of revenues and expenditures across more than 13,000 public school districts. Only districts enrolling 500 or more students are ranked, to keep small-district outliers from distorting the comparison.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.