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Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Pyrtle Elementary School, Lincoln, NE

Pyrtle Elementary School is a public elementary school in Lincoln, part of Lincoln Public Schools. It enrolled 449 students in 2024-25, with 15.0 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "PYRTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
449
Teachers (FTE)
30.0
Students per teacher
15.0
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is 1.1 higher than the district figure of 13.9. The Nebraska average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.0
District13.9
Nebraska14.1
United States15.3

School details

Address
721 Cottonwood Dr, Lincoln, NE 68510
Phone
(402)436-1162
District
Lincoln Public Schools
County
Lancaster County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
317284001172
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
81
Reduced-price lunch
27
Free or reduced-price lunch
10824.1% 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.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Lincoln Public Schools

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.