Public school / Primary
West Park Elementary
Columbus, Nebraska
- NCES ID
- 310534000170
- District
- Columbus Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Park Elementary is a public primary school in Columbus, Nebraska, run by Columbus Public Schools. It enrols 262 students — the 70756th 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
262
Teachers
13.0
Students per teacher
20.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
50.4%
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 Columbus 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.
- 1Columbus High School1,273 students
- 2Columbus Middle School1,174 students
- 3Centennial Elementary School413 students
- 4Lost Creek Elementary Sch356 students
- 5North Park Elementary331 students
- 6Emerson Elementary School281 students
- 7West Park Elementary262 students
- 8Pathways Beyond/Early Steps To Success Building21 students
- Enrollment−1.1%
- Teachers−27.8%
- Students per teacher+53.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+28.9%
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