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SOUTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Bartley, Nebraska · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

326
Students enrolled
3
Public schools
36
Classroom teachers (FTE)
9.0:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 41
  • Kindergarten 20
  • Grade 1 25
  • Grade 2 27
  • Grade 3 21
  • Grade 4 17
  • Grade 5 21
  • Grade 6 19
  • Grade 7 29
  • Grade 8 23
  • Grade 9 20
  • Grade 10 20
  • Grade 11 25
  • Grade 12 18

By race/ethnicity

  • White 84%
  • Hispanic/Latino 11%
  • Two or more races 3%
  • Black or African American <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

48% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 155 of 326 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 37%
  • Reduced-price lunch 11%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$20,883 spent per student on day-to-day operations Nebraska median: $18,490 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $11,629
  • Support services $8,254
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,000

Where the money comes from

  • Local 74%
  • State 21%
  • Federal 5%

Total revenue $6.8 milliontotal spending $7.0 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Distant

Total staff (FTE)

79

District office

900 COKE ST, Bartley NE 69020

County

Red Willow County

Official website

NCES District ID

3100178

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About SOUTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Mission Statement-“United We Educate” Our wish is to develop responsible, life-long learners through a progressive, quality education. This district, in cooperation with family and community, will provide a flexible and varied educational program committed to excellence. Students will become empowered to become productive and contributing members of a global society.Danbury and Lebanon 91ÖÆƬ combined their students at the beginning of the 1958-1959 school year to form the Beaver Valley School District.The Indianola and the Red Willow 91ÖÆƬ met as a combined school district on June 26, 1969 to hold the first school board meeting for the newly formed Republican Valley School District. Beginning with the 1969-1970 school year, students combined to form the Republican Valley Schools.The Wilsonville School District combined with the Beaver Valley School District on September 1, 1983. An elementary attendance center remained in Wilsonville until the mid-90’s.The Bartley and Beaver Valley 91ÖÆƬ officially became the Twin Valley School District on March 1, 1997. An elementary attendance center remained at the building in Danbury with Junior-Senior High students combining for the 1997-1998 school year in Bartley.The Marion School District decided to close the doors of their K-8 district and combine with the Twin Valley District on August 1, 1998 following state legislation ruling Class I school districts affiliate with a kindergarten-grade twelve district.The Twin Valley and Republican Valley School districts legally merged on August 1, 2003 following a majority vote of the patrons of both districts on March 25, 2003 to issue bonds to build a new building in Bartley and merge both districts. The Twin Valley fourth grade students were transported to the Republican Valley Elementary School in Indianola for the 2003-2004 school year, and the district’s preschool was located in Bartley. A cooperative agreement between both districts allowed students participating in cross country, junior high sports, track and golf to combine during the 2003-2004 school year.On October 13, 2003, the Board of Education approved the newly formed district’s name and mascot as the Southwest Public School Roughriders. A motion by the School Board on November 10, 2003 approved the school colors as navy blue, Carolina blue, and white. The school name, mascot, and colors were approved following a vote of the student body. The remaining grades of each district officially began classes as one district for the 2004-2005 school year with grades six through eight located at the Bartley site and grades nine through twelve at the rural Republican Valley High School site. Elementary students will continue to receive their education at the building in the City of Indianola. The final drawing of the official Roughrider mascot was approved at the February 9, 2004 Board of Education meeting. Contractors began work on the new building site at Bartley in March of 2008. Occupation of the new building took place on November 13, 2009.
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