Nebraska school safety

City and district rankings from federal incident data · 2021-22 collection

1,047SCHOOLS

952WITH TRUSTED DATA

24RANKED CITIES

Safest ranked cities in Nebraska

Percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities (higher = safer). Only cities with ≥5 trustworthy-data schools are ranked. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI.

#	CITY	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS	HOME VALUE
1	Sidney	94	6 of 7	$180,045
2	Schuyler	94	5 of 7	$238,475
3	North Platte	94	10 of 12	$220,376
4	Niobrara	94	5 of 5	$198,092
5	Lexington	94	6 of 7	$208,948
6	Kearney	74	15 of 16	$319,176
7	Hastings	71	9 of 10	$209,042
8	Norfolk	61	10 of 11	$264,593
9	Elkhorn	58	10 of 11	—
10	Lincoln	57	68 of 76	$297,539
11	Columbus	53	10 of 11	$275,125
12	Scottsbluff	50	7 of 12	$190,140
13	Omaha	47	163 of 176	$300,783
14	Bellevue	44	22 of 28	$302,976
15	Gretna	42	6 of 6	$432,240
16	Bennington	28	6 of 6	$414,768
17	Beatrice	27	5 of 6	$189,459
18	Fremont	17	11 of 12	$261,080
19	Gering	13	5 of 7	$217,706
20	Grand Island	13	22 of 25	$258,203
21	Papillion	6	14 of 16	$415,721
22	So Sioux City	3	6 of 7	—
23	La Vista	3	5 of 5	$313,990
24	Blair	2	6 of 6	$362,630

Safest ranked districts

#	DISTRICT	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS
1	SIDNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS	90	6 of 7
2	SCHUYLER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS	90	6 of 8
3	LEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS	90	6 of 7
4	NORTH PLATTE PUBLIC SCHOOLS	90	10 of 12
5	HASTINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS	74	7 of 7
6	WAVERLY SCHOOL DISTRICT 145	71	5 of 5
7	KEARNEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS	66	14 of 15
8	NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOLS	54	10 of 11
9	OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS	53	95 of 107
10	COLUMBUS PUBLIC SCHOOLS	51	7 of 8
11	LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS	50	67 of 74
12	BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS	49	20 of 21
13	ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS	47	18 of 20
14	SCOTTSBLUFF PUBLIC SCHOOLS	42	7 of 8
15	WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS	42	12 of 12
16	GRETNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS	36	10 of 10
17	MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS	33	36 of 36
18	SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNIFIED 5	30	6 of 8
19	BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS	27	6 of 6
20	BEATRICE PUBLIC SCHOOLS	25	5 of 6
21	FREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOLS	17	11 of 12
22	GERING PUBLIC SCHOOLS	13	5 of 6
23	GRAND ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS	10	19 of 21
24	PAPILLION LA VISTA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS	6	21 of 22
25	SO SIOUX CITY COMMUNITY SCHS	4	7 of 8

Every Nebraska city with schools

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