The top reported proficiency rate is 0% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Randolph Elementary School
Randolph Elementary School serves students from preschool through sixth grade in the small northeast Nebraska town of Randolph. The school is part of the Randolph Public Schools district, and the community it sits in is primarily residential and agricultural, with farming, livestock feeding, and beekeeping as economic anchors. The town describes itself as the “Honey Capital of the Nation,” and its population has been gradually declining over the long term, though recent estimates show a slight uptick. The housing market in the area, as measured by the Zillow Home Value Index for the school’s ZIP code, shows home values well below the state and national benchmarks, which will matter to a family considering a move here.
Enrollment at Randolph Elementary is small, with roughly a couple hundred students across the PK-6 grades. The student body is overwhelmingly white, and more than a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that indicates that the school serves a community with modest incomes. Data on students with an Individualized Education Program or English learner status was not available, so a parent who wants to know about special education or language support programs would need to ask the school directly.
The state testing results come from the 2024-25 Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System, and they are unusual. The data shows a reported proficiency rate of zero percent across every tested subject, every tested grade, for all students. That includes both math and English language arts for grades three through six and science for fifth grade. A zero-percent proficiency rate is an extreme outlier, and it does not match the multi-year trend data, which shows that for the same 2024-25 school year, the school’s overall English language arts proficiency, when combining all tested grades, was in the range of about sixty percent, and math proficiency was in the range of about fifty percent. The grade-level breakdowns all display zero, but the combined schoolwide average in the trend data tells a different story. This discrepancy is not explained in the data provided. A parent or resident wanting to understand actual student performance should contact the school or the district directly to ask about the grade-level results and to clarify which set of numbers reflects the current reality. The comparison to other districts in Cedar County places the school’s overall proficiency index in the bottom quartile relative to districts in the county, but that ranking is based on the same zero-percent figure for this school, making it unreliable as a benchmark without further clarification.
Because Randolph Elementary serves only through sixth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. The school is a regular public school with no charter or magnet status, and its Title I status was not listed in the available data. Information on programs, course access, staffing ratios, discipline rates, and chronic absenteeism was also absent. The district brief turned up no recent changes of lasting impact, so there is no major new initiative or restructuring to report.
The town itself is auto-oriented for most practical needs, though its compact layout means schools, city offices, and businesses are within a short distance of one another. Civic life centers on a municipal pool, tennis courts, a golf course, a baseball field, and several churches. The local economy also includes a nursing home and a bank as major employers. A family moving here should expect a quiet, rural setting with a modest housing stock and a small school where the academic picture will need to be clarified directly with the school staff.
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