Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Emerson Elementary School, Kearney, NE
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 235
- Teachers (FTE)
- 18.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.1
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 2.5 lower than the district figure of 15.6. The Nebraska average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 2705 Ave E, Kearney, NE 68847
- Phone
- (308)698-8270
- District
- Kearney Public Schools
- County
- Buffalo County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 317239001103
School meals
- Free lunch
- 116
- Reduced-price lunch
- 12
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 12854.5% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Kearney Public Schools
- Meadowlark Elementary School 417 students
- Kenwood Elementary School 398 students
- Northeast Elementary School 397 students
- Central Elementary School 284 students
- Buffalo Hills Elementary 272 students
- Windy Hills Elementary School 259 students
- Park Elementary School 257 students
- Bryant Elementary School 248 students
- Glenwood Elementary School 118 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.