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Lincoln Public Schools was founded in 1923, and is the second largest public school district in the U.S. state of Nebraska, located in the heart of the Great Plains. The school district of over 40,000 students is home to more than 60 schools and programs. [1]

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The current superintendent is Dr. Paul Gausman, who joined LPS on July 1, 2022. He previously was the superintendent for Sioux City Community School District for fourteen years. Dr. Gausman holds degrees from the University of St. Thomas, the University of Sioux Falls, the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. [2]

As of 2010, students of Lincoln Public Schools speak 52 languages; largely due to Lincoln being a destination of many refugees, who have settled there since the U.S. Government declared Lincoln a refugee-friendly city in the 1970s. [3]

The district includes almost all of the Lincoln city limits, all of Yankee Hill, and portions of Cheney and Emerald. [4]

English Language Learners

At Lincoln Public Schools, during the 2018–19 school year, the English Language Learners (ELL) program had 2,962 students from approximately 150 countries, who spoke approximately 125 different languages. [5] [6] Some of the most common first-languages spoken within the program are Arabic, Chinese, French, Karen, Kurdish, Nuer, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian [7] [8] and Vietnamese. The top two first-language groups, as of 2018–19 school year, are Arabic and Kurdish speakers (38.4%), and Spanish speakers (25.2%). From the 2010–11 to the 2018–19 school years, LPS saw Arabic and Kurdish ELL students increase by over 196%, from 321 Arabic and 63 Kurdish speaking students to 605 Arabic and 532 Kurdish speaking students. [9] [10] The continually increasing influx of refugees and immigrants to Lincoln over recent years, which has included refugees/immigrants from Iraq, Mexico, Burma and refugee camps in Thailand, has caused LPS to hire additional ELL teachers at an increasingly rapid pace. [11] However, due to recent immigration restrictions on the national level, ELL numbers have been declining somewhat since 2018. [12]

Music literacy

Music literacy in Lincoln begins early with Lincoln Public School music programs that provide children with the opportunity to begin strings in 4th grade and band in the 5th grade. Collaboration between the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and LPS provides children in the 3rd grade with weekly instruction in classical strings. These programs and others are supported by music retail stores within the city.[ citation needed ]

Schools

Elementary schools

  • Adams Elementary School
  • Arnold Elementary School
  • Beattie Elementary School
  • Belmont Elementary School
  • Brownell Elementary School
  • Calvert Elementary School
  • Campbell Elementary School
  • Cavett Elementary School
  • Clinton Elementary School
  • Eastridge Elementary School
  • Elliott Elementary School
  • Everett Elementary School
  • Fredstrom Elementary School
  • Hartley Elementary School
  • Hill Elementary School
  • Holmes Elementary School
  • Humann Elementary School
  • Huntington Elementary School
  • Kahoa Elementary School
  • Kloefkorn Elementary School
  • Kooser Elementary School
  • Lakeview Elementary School
  • Maxey Elementary School
  • McPhee Elementary School
  • Meadow Lane Elementary School
  • Morley Elementary School
  • Norwood Park Elementary School
  • Pershing Elementary School
  • Prescott Elementary School
  • Pyrtle Elementary School
  • Randolph Elementary School
  • Riley Elementary School
  • Robinson Elementary School
  • Roper Elementary School
  • Rousseau Elementary School
  • Saratoga Elementary School
  • Sheridan Elementary School
  • West Lincoln Elementary School
  • Wysong Elementary School
  • Zeman Elementary School

Middle schools

  • Culler Middle School
  • Dawes Middle School
  • Goodrich Middle School
  • Irving Middle School
  • Lefler Middle School
  • Lux Middle School
  • Mickle Middle School
  • Moore Middle School
  • Park Middle School
  • Pound Middle School
  • Schoo Middle School
  • Scott Middle School

High schools

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  1. ↑ "Lincoln Public Schools". www.lps.org. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ "LPS Superintendent | Home" . Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  3. ↑ "'We've Found Peace in This Land'." Parade . October 10, 2010. Retrieved on August 17, 2011.
  4. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Lancaster County, NE" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. pp. 1-2 (PDF p. 2-3/3). Retrieved November 27, 2022.
  5. ↑ "ELL – English Language Learner Program". Federal Programs. Lincoln Public Schools, Nebraska. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
  6. ↑ Reist, Margaret (January 2, 2017). "LPS superintendent has been through the uncertainty and fear before". Lincoln Journal Star. Lincoln, NE. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Refugee Dreams of a Return to Nursing via English – WORD ON THE STREET". Lincoln Literacy. Firespring. Winter 2020. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Refugees from Ukraine in Lincoln, Nebraska". Great Falls Tribune. Great Falls, MT. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  9. ↑ "2018–19 Annual Statistical Handbook, Student Section" (PDF). Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, NE. http://www.lps.org/post/index.cfm?collection=77 . Retrieved June 6, 2019.
  10. ↑ "2010–11 Annual Statistical Handbook Student Section" (PDF). Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, NE. https://docushare.lps.org/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-168812 . Retrieved November 21, 2016.
  11. ↑ Reist, Margaret (July 18, 2015). "Unprecedented increase in ELL students prompts proposal to spend $1.2 million". Lincoln Journal Star. Lincoln, NE. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  12. ↑ Reist, Margaret (October 8, 2018). "Changes at federal level tied to smaller numbers in ELL programs in Lincoln schools". Lincoln Journal Star. Lincoln, NE. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
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