List of school districts in Nebraska

Nebraska public school districts are divided into four classes:

• Class 3 (district has 1 to 499,999 inhabitants)
• Class 4 (district has more than 100,000 inhabitants in primary cities; Lincoln Public Schools is the only district in this class)
• Class 5 (district has more than 200,000 inhabitants in metropolitan cities; Omaha Public Schools is the only district in this class)
• Class 8 (State-operated school districts)

Three additional classes of Nebraska school districts, Class 1 (grades K-8; affiliated with one or more Class 2-5 districts and/or joined with a Class 6 district for tax purposes) and Class 6 (grades 6–12; was joined with one or more Class 1 districts) were dissolved on June 15, 2006, and Class 2 (district has 1,000 or fewer inhabitants) was dissolved in 2018.^[1]

All unlabeled districts on this list are class 3; others will be specified.

The highest number of school districts the state ever had was over 7,000.^[2] In 1921 the state legislature passed a law that caused the first wave of school district consolidation. Increased highway transportation and a desire for a strong education in all parts of the state prompted more consolidations. After the law passed 5% of the area school districts closed or merged up to World War II.^[3] 6,604 school districts remained in the 1950-1951 school year.^[4]

Post-World War II de-ruralization meant that school district populations declined further, with a large number consolidated in the 1950s and 1960s.^[2]

In 1990 there were 812 school districts. In 2004 this was down to 501,^[4] and later that year the number of school districts went below 500.^[2]

• Valentine Community Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Gordon-Rushville Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Sioux County Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Garden County Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Hyannis Area Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Mullen Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Ainsworth Community Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Dundy County Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Rock County Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Hemingford Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Sandhills Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• West Holt Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Alliance Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• McPherson County Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Perkins County Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Banner County Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Keya Paha County Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Chase County Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Arthur County Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Thedford Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Chadron Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Kimball Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Bridgeport Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Southwest Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• O'Neill Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Wheeler Central Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Stapleton Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Nebraska Unified District ^[5][6][7]
• Southern Valley Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Creek Valley Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Loup County Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Cody-Kilgore Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Burwell Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Hayes Center Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Leyton Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Ogallala Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Potter-Dix Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• South Central Nebraska School District ^[5][6][7]
• Anselmo-Merna Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Broken Bow Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Wallace Public School District ^[5][6][7]
• Arnold Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Wauneta-Palisade Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Ord Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• West Boyd Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Callaway Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Boone Central Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Humboldt Table Rock Steinauer Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Maywood Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Hitchcock County School System ^[5][6][7]
• Eustis-Farnam Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Paxton Consolidated Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Fairbury Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Chambers Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Loup City Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Crawford Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• South Platte Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Hershey Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Minden Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Franklin Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Adams Central Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Maxwell Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Centennial Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Gothenburg Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Arapahoe Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Medicine Valley Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Hay Springs Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• David City Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Falls City Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Schuyler Community Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Sargent Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Twin Rivers Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Silver Lake Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Greeley-Wolbach Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Sidney Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Sutherland Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Johnson County Central Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Wilcox-Hildreth Public Schools ^[5][6][7]
• Thayer Central Community Schools ^[5][6][7]

• Raymond Central Schools #161

• Boyd County Unified #51

• Stanton Community Schools #3

• Wheeler Central Schools #45

• Doniphan-Trumbull Public Schools #126

• South Central Nebraska Unified System 5
• Superior Public Schools #11

• Sandhills Public Schools #71

• Riverside Public Schools #75

• Burwell Public Schools #100

• Central Valley Public Schools #60

• Loup County Public Schools #25

• Franklin Public Schools #506

• Eustis-Farnam Public Schools #95

• Elwood Public Schools #30

• Alma Public Schools #2

• Banner County Public Schools #1

• Creek Valley Schools #25

• Garden County Schools #1

• Kimball Public Schools #1

• Sioux County Schools #500

• Dundy County Public Schools #117

• Hayes Center Public Schools #79

• Hitchcock County Unified School System #70

• Arthur County Schools #500

• South Platte Public Schools #95

• Hyannis Area Schools #11

• Mullen Public Schools #1

• Stapleton Public Schools #501

• McPherson County Schools #90

• Perkins County Schools #20

• Thedford Public Schools #1

• Ainsworth Community Schools #10

• Keya Paha County Public Schools #100

• Rock County Schools #100

• Lincoln Public Schools #1 (Class 4)

• Omaha Public Schools #1 (Class 5)

Listed by date of dissolution:^[8]

• List of high schools in Nebraska
• Educational Service Units of Nebraska

• Worrell, Cory D. (April 18, 2015). "The History of Nebraska Public School Reorganization Over the Past 30 Years and How This History Might be Used to Predict Nebraska School Reorganization in the Future: A Mixed Methods Study". University of Nebraska. (PhD thesis)

• Nebraska Education Directory