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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 42,000 students is home to more than 70 schools and programs. [1] The current superintendent is Dr. Paul Gausman, who joined LPS on July 1, 2022.
More than 40,000 students have graduated from Lincoln High in its 153-year history. [2] The school colors are red and black, and the mascot is the Links. Its mascot is memorialized in a statue on the school's front lawn, gifted by the class of 1970, with four individual links chained together.
Lincoln Park Elementary School [14] with 522 students in grades PreK–4 Melissa Bammer, principal [15] Middle school. Lincoln Park Middle School [16] with 366 students in grades 5–8 David Winston, principal [17]
As of the 2022-23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,268 students and 127.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 17.8:1. There were 343 students (15.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 137 (6.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
North Star was originally supposed to be named Lincoln Northwest; at the time, every high school in Lincoln Public Schools was named after a direction depending on their respective location, with the exception of Lincoln High. Before the school opened, the students voted on the name North Star. The school's colors are navy blue and burgundy/maroon.
As part of a recent $250 million school improvement bond issue, renovations were planned for Southeast and are now finished. Renovations included the expansion of the cafeteria, the replacement of the roofing and windows, renovation of the performing arts wing, new classroom additions, new heating and air conditioning systems, and various exterior fixes.
arts.lps.org Arts and Humanities Focus Program , commonly referred to as Arts , [ 2 ] is a focus program that specializes in art and the humanities . The school opened in 1999, [ 3 ] and is housed in a historic bottling plant along the banks of Antelope Creek in Lincoln , Nebraska , United States.
Generally, graduation requirements are not wholly met through the classes offered at focus programs alone, so students will often attend the high school in which they would normally be enrolled in for a couple class periods in the morning and then commute to the focus programs during the school day. Classes run on block scheduling.