Public school / Primary
Gates Elementary School
Grand Island, Nebraska
- NCES ID
- 310001601015
- District
- Grand Island Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Gates Elementary School is a public primary school in Grand Island, Nebraska, run by Grand Island Public Schools. It enrols 301 students — the 65460th largest of 1,106 public schools in Nebraska.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
301
Teachers
21.0
Students per teacher
14.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
57.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Grand Island Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Grand Island Senior High School2,650 students
- 2Walnut Middle School853 students
- 3Barr Middle School718 students
- 4Westridge Middle School599 students
- 5Engleman Elementary School481 students
- 6Howard Elementary School471 students
- 7Starr Elementary School446 students
- 8Shoemaker Elementary School433 students
- Enrollment+13.6%
- Teachers+16.7%
- Students per teacher+8.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+47.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory