Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 6

High Plains Community Elementary School, Clarks, NE

High Plains Community Elementary School is a public elementary school in Clarks, part of High Plains Community Schools. It enrolled 114 students in 2024-25, with 8.1 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "HIGH PLAINS COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 114
Teachers (FTE): 14.0
Students per teacher: 8.1
Grades: PK to 6

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 8.0. The Nebraska average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school8.1

District8.0

Nebraska14.1

United States15.3

School details

Address: 205 W Pearl St, Clarks, NE 68628
Phone: (308)548-2216
District: High Plains Community Schools
County: Polk County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 310012300816

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 24
Reduced-price lunch: 8
Free or reduced-price lunch: 3228.1% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

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.

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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.