Best Elementary Schools in Nebraska

The top 50 elementary schools (grades K-5) in Nebraska, ranked by enrollment from NCES data with EDFacts proficiency rates where available. Average proficiency across this list is 66%.

#	School	City	Enrollment	Proficiency
1	Adams Elementary School	Lincoln, NE	762	70%
2	Spring Lake Magnet Center	Bellevue, NE	700	56%
3	Wysong Elementary	Lincoln, NE	697	74%
4	Maxey Elementary School	Lincoln, NE	688	72%
5	Wheeler Elementary School	Omaha, NE	657	71%
6	Norris Intermediate School	Firth, NE	577	66%
7	Rousseau Elementary School	Lincoln, NE	566	62%
8	Blue Sage Elementary	Elkhorn, NE	562	65%
9	Reagan Elementary	Omaha, NE	555	68%
10	Norris Elementary School	Firth, NE	554	63%
11	Neihardt Elementary School	Omaha, NE	549	63%
12	Reeder Elementary School	Gretna, NE	542	62%
13	Whitetail Creek Elementary	Omaha, NE	538	64%
14	Falling Waters Elementary School	Omaha, NE	516	67%
15	Manchester Elementary School	Omaha, NE	510	63%
16	Spring Ridge Elementary	Omaha, NE	502	65%
17	Woodbrook Elementary School	Elkhorn, NE	496	69%
18	Willowdale Elementary School	Omaha, NE	495	63%
19	Ezra Millard Elementary Sch	Omaha, NE	491	64%
20	West Dodge Station Elementary	Elkhorn, NE	491	71%
21	Palisades Elementary School	Omaha, NE	490	68%
22	Arbor View Elementary School	Elkhorn, NE	489	69%
23	Blair Arbor Park Intermediate School	Blair, NE	475	63%
24	Ecse - Homebased	Lincoln, NE	474	66%
25	Gretna Elementary School	Gretna, NE	463	74%
26	Rohwer Elementary School	Omaha, NE	463	65%
27	Wahoo Elementary School	Wahoo, NE	456	65%
28	Grace Abbott Elem School	Omaha, NE	440	62%
29	Heritage Elementary	Bennington, NE	435	65%
30	Hill Elementary School	Lincoln, NE	421	66%
31	Harvest Hills Elementary School	Gretna, NE	417	61%
32	Elementary at Bennet	Bennet, NE	400	62%
33	Upchurch Elementary	Omaha, NE	393	70%
34	Squire John Thomas Elementary	Gretna, NE	390	62%
35	Skyline Elementary School	Elkhorn, NE	389	63%
36	J Sterling Morton Elem School	Omaha, NE	380	69%
37	Westridge Elementary School	Elkhorn, NE	364	70%
38	Beattie Elementary School	Lincoln, NE	360	63%
39	Cottonwood Elementary School	Omaha, NE	346	66%
40	Hillrise Elementary School	Elkhorn, NE	341	65%
41	Stratford Elementary School	Bennington, NE	341	62%
42	Willa Cather Elementary School	Omaha, NE	324	66%
43	Buffalo Hills Elementary	Kearney, NE	316	70%
44	Evelyn Hamlow Elementary	Waverly, NE	316	70%
45	Deerfield Elementary School	Blair, NE	288	63%
46	Boone Central Elem-Albion	Albion, NE	284	67%
47	Park Elementary School	Kearney, NE	282	64%
48	Elementary School at Syracuse	Syracuse, NE	271	66%
49	Fillmore Central Elementary	Geneva, NE	271	61%
50	Hitchcock Elementary School	Omaha, NE	247	66%

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best elementary school in Nebraska?

The largest elementary school in Nebraska is Adams Elementary School in Lincoln with 762 students and a 70% proficiency rate. Rankings are based on NCES Common Core of Data enrollment and EDFacts proficiency results.

How many elementary schools are in Nebraska?

This page shows the top 50 elementary schools (grades K-5) in Nebraska by enrollment. Browse the full state directory to see all schools.

What does the proficiency rate measure?

Proficiency rate is the percentage of students meeting grade-level standards on combined math and reading assessments, as reported by EDFacts. Data is district-level and applied to each school in the district.

Where does this data come from?

Enrollment and school characteristics come from the NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency rates come from EDFacts assessment results. Both are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.

The this entity category groups every U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.

For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.

Sources: NCES Common Core of Data, EDFacts

Last updated: June 2026

Schools are ranked by enrollment within the state. Proficiency rates come from EDFacts assessment results, district-level figures applied to each school in the district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.