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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Whitetail Creek Elementary

Gretna, Nebraska

NCES ID
317122002264
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Whitetail Creek Elementary is a public primary school in Gretna, Nebraska, run by Gretna Public Schools. It enrols 538 students — the 32869th largest of 1,106 public schools in Nebraska.

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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

538students

32869th nationally, tied with 100

Teachers

34.0FTE

34064th nationally, tied with 1,817

Students per teacher

15.8students

54892nd nationally, tied with 904

Free or reduced-price lunch

6.5%percent

84713th nationally, tied with 24

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.

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Within Gretna 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Gretna High School1,729 students
  2. 2Aspen Creek Middle School777 students
  3. 3Gretna Middle School728 students
  4. 4Whitetail Creek Elementary538 students
  5. 5Falling Waters Elementary School516 students
  6. 6Palisades Elementary School490 students
  7. 7Aspen Creek Elementary School481 students
  8. 8Gretna Elementary School463 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Nebraska median across 1,106 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+103.0%
  • Teachers+88.9%
  • Students per teacher+19.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−83.4%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.