Regular local school district · Buffalo County
Kearney Public Schools, NE: schools, enrollment and spending
Kearney Public Schools runs 15 public schools with 6,066 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 15.6 students per teacher is 1.5 higher than the Nebraska figure of 14.1.Listed in NCES data as "KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS".
At a glance
- Schools
- 15
- Students
- 6,066
- Teachers (FTE)
- 390
- Students per teacher
- 15.6
- NE: 14.1 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 320 W 24th St, Kearney, NE 68845
- Phone
- (308)698-8000
- County
- Buffalo County
- Locale
- Town: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 3172390
- State district ID
- NE-100007000
- Total staff (FTE)
- 823
- School counselors (FTE)
- 17.0About 357 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 23.0
Students per teacher compared
This district15.6
Nebraska14.1
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (6,055), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $79.0 million
- Federal revenue
- $8.0 million
- State revenue
- $16.9 million
- Local revenue
- $54.0 million
- Total spending
- $71.7 million
- Spending per pupil
- $11,843
- Salaries
- $43.2 million60.2% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $151.2 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 10.1%
- State: 21.4%
- Local: 68.4%
Nebraska overall
- Federal: 9.5%
- State: 31.4%
- Local: 59.0%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$11,843
Nebraska$16,481
United States$16,826
Schools in Kearney Public Schools
By level: 2 high, 2 middle, 10 elementary, 1 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Bryant Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 248 | 13.1 |
| Buffalo Hills Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 272 | 17.0 |
| Central Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 284 | 14.9 |
| Emerson Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 235 | 13.1 |
| Glenwood Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 118 | 14.8 |
| Hanny Arram Center | High | 6 to 12 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Horizon Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 648 | 15.1 |
| Kearney Education CenterCEP school | Prekindergarten | PK | 332 | 22.1 |
| Kearney High School | High | 9 to 12 | 1,663 | 18.3 |
| Kenwood Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 398 | 15.9 |
| Meadowlark Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 417 | 18.1 |
| Northeast Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 397 | 13.7 |
| Park Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 257 | 17.1 |
| Sunrise Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 536 | 12.2 |
| Windy Hills Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 259 | 17.3 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Buffalo County
- Gibbon Public Schools 575 students
- Ravenna Public Schools 412 students
- Elm Creek Public Schools 364 students
- Amherst Public Schools 360 students
- Pleasanton Public Schools 331 students
- Shelton Public Schools 276 students
- West Kearney High School 65 students
- West Hastings School 22 students
- Educational Service Unit 10
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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. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.