About Grand Island Public Schools
Grand Island Public Schools is a public school system serving Hall County, Nebraska, based in Grand Island. It serves 9,983 students across 23 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: small district. By enrollment it is the #6 largest of Nebraska’s 252 school systems.
Size and structure
Grand Island Public Schools enrolls 9,983 students in 23 schools — an average of about 434 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #6 of 252 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Grand Island Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (9,983 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Grand Island Public Schools employs about 644 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 15.5:1 — above the Nebraska average of about 13.7:1. Total district staff is roughly 1,378.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Nebraska funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Grand Island Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Nebraska’s accountability system, AQuESTT (Accountability for a Quality Education System, Today and Tomorrow), classifies districts across evidence-based analysis, assessment, growth, graduation and college-and-career readiness. Look up Grand Island Public Schools on the Nebraska Education Profile.
Accreditation status
Nebraska accredits public districts through the state’s own Rule 10 standards, administered by the Nebraska Department of Education, rather than a private accreditor. See the Nebraska Department of Education for a district’s accreditation status.
Grand Island Public Schools vs. Nebraska
See every Nebraska district side by side in the Nebraska directory.
Look up Grand Island Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):
