Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

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Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School is a public elementary school in Show Low, Arizona, serving 389 students in grades K-5. The school is part of the Show Low Unified District, which has a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Nikolaus Homestead's academic performance, as measured by proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Mathematics, is generally lower than the surrounding schools and the state averages. For instance, in 2023-2024, the school's 3rd-grade ELA proficiency rate was 34%, compared to 40% at Linden Elementary and 43% at Blue Ridge Elementary. Similarly, its 3rd-grade Math proficiency rate was 32%, compared to 51% at Linden and 45% at Blue Ridge. However, the school performs well for African American and Homeless students, ranking in the top 100 schools in the state.

Nikolaus Homestead has seen a significant increase in its free and reduced lunch rate, from 22.47% in 2021-2022 to 41.65% in 2022-2023, indicating a growing population of economically disadvantaged students. The school has also experienced a steady decline in its racial diversity, with the percentage of White students increasing from 70.86% in 2021-2022 to 74.31% in 2020-2021. Despite these challenges, Nikolaus Homestead has seen increased funding and a focus on improving the student-teacher ratio, which may help address these issues in the future.


Detail:

Public K-5

 761 E McNeil
       Show Low, AZ  85901-5962


(928) 537-6150

District: Show Low Unified District

SchoolDigger Rank:
609th of 912 Arizona Elementary Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $8,349 Help


Students who attend Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    Show Low Junior High School
Alternative:    Show Low High School

Student/teacher ratio:  20.3 Help
Number of students:  407

Racial breakdown:

White:
68.1%
Hispanic:
21.9%
American Indian:
6.4%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  41.6% Help


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Compare Details Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School ranks worse than 66.8% of elementary schools in Arizona. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 27.05. (See more...)
Student Body
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Compare Details Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School has the largest elementary school student body size in the Show Low Unified District. Racial makeup is: White (68.1%), Hispanic (21.9%), American Indian (6.4%). (See more...)
Teachers
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School is 20.3, which is the highest among 4 elementary schools in the Show Low Unified District! (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School is $8,349, which is the lowest among 4 elementary schools in the Show Low Unified District!
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School:

SchoolDigger ranks Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School 609th of 912 Arizona public elementary schools. (See Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School in the ranking list.)

Elementary School Test Score Ratings by Student Subgroup:


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Show Low Unified District:

SchoolDigger ranks Show Low Unified District 170th of 297 Arizona school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

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Rank History for all students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2009 58.50 447th 1062 57.9%
2010 59.79 437th 1090 59.9%
2011 50.89 508th 1075 52.7%
2012 52.00 551st 1141 51.7%
2013 53.26 549th 1158 52.6%
2014 54.08 503rd 1079 53.4%
2015 17.16 814th 955 14.8%
2016 44.77 528th 1079 51.1%
2017 47.86 519th 1106 53.1%
2018 58.63 427th 1109 61.5%
2019 46.97 505th 1039 51.4%
2021 62.29 416th 1226 66.1%
2022 38.05 563rd 1000 43.7%
2023 45.11 601st 1245 51.7%
2024 27.05 609th 912 33.2%
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Rank History for Multi-racial students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 27.16 828th 1027 19.4%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 58.51 85th 975 91.3%
2023 51.19 168th 451 62.7%
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Rank History for Special Education students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 27.26 314th 417 24.7%
2021 33.89 793rd 1201 34.0%
2023 18.36 773rd 820 5.7%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 50.75 373rd 820 54.5%
2022 40.35 382nd 618 38.2%
2023 41.22 630th 1116 43.5%
2024 29.00 394th 556 29.1%
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Rank History for Homeless students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 65.11 44th 423 89.6%
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Rank History for Female students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 57.10 412th 1023 59.7%
2019 39.53 486th 862 43.6%
2021 63.70 395th 1219 67.6%
2022 41.85 500th 824 39.3%
2023 51.53 512th 1219 58.0%
2024 25.01 460th 602 23.6%
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Rank History for Male students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 53.31 435th 1032 57.8%
2019 36.64 492nd 850 42.1%
2021 58.61 447th 1220 63.4%
2022 29.14 589th 830 29.0%
2023 37.21 701st 1216 42.4%
2024 9.34 592nd 628 5.7%
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Rank History for Asian students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 47.20 375th 620 39.5%
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Rank History for African American students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 73.03 94th 895 89.5%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 31.62 639th 911 29.9%
2019 35.39 441st 709 37.8%
2021 54.14 455th 1198 62.0%
2022 30.14 505th 716 29.5%
2023 41.69 641st 1170 45.2%
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Rank History for Native American students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2021 35.72 417th 654 36.2%
2022 19.64 76th 82 7.3%
2023 40.53 124th 219 43.4%
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Rank History for White students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Elementary Schools AZ State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 39.28 465th 720 35.4%
2019 18.60 524th 595 11.9%
2021 54.76 487th 1161 58.1%
2022 22.43 684th 800 14.5%
2023 26.00 807th 1024 21.2%
2024 4.67 476th 486 2.1%
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Data source: test scores: Arizona Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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Enrollment information for Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1990 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 427 427
1991 380 4 2 30 22 n/a n/a -4 434
1992 354 5 3 27 20 n/a n/a 0 409
1993 418 4 4 20 20 n/a n/a 0 466
1994 407 5 4 33 22 n/a n/a 0 471
1995 391 6 2 32 27 n/a n/a 0 458
1996 391 6 2 32 27 n/a n/a 0 458
1997 411 6 5 31 18 n/a n/a 0 471
1998 389 2 1 36 18 n/a n/a 0 446
1999 379 2 2 40 26 n/a n/a 0 449
2000 367 1 1 46 30 n/a n/a 0 445
2001 361 1 3 57 26 n/a n/a 0 448
2002 343 3 3 53 19 n/a n/a 0 421
2003 343 3 3 53 19 n/a n/a 0 421
2004 344 2 5 57 23 n/a n/a 0 431
2005 331 2 4 57 27 n/a n/a 0 421
2006 322 2 4 66 32 n/a n/a 0 426
2007 324 0 2 73 29 n/a n/a 0 428
2008 326 6 2 76 26 n/a n/a 0 436
2009 317 5 2 80 23 n/a n/a 0 427
2010 265 0 2 61 19 n/a n/a 0 347
2011 250 0 5 64 31 0 5 0 355
2012 281 0 7 64 25 3 6 0 386
2013 289 1 5 60 19 2 7 0 383
2014 269 2 3 59 22 6 8 0 369
2015 242 3 4 73 19 2 5 0 348
2016 359 2 0 94 29 1 8 0 493
2017 322 4 3 111 27 1 10 0 478
2018 338 4 5 95 19 1 8 0 470
2019 356 3 5 92 17 0 7 0 480
2020 331 2 7 108 14 0 10 0 472
2021 295 2 5 78 11 0 6 0 397
2022 287 6 5 83 21 1 2 0 405
2023 261 6 6 88 24 1 3 0 389
2024 277 8 4 89 26 1 2 0 407

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1990 427 n/a n/a n/a
1991 434 21.0 20.6 n/a
1992 409 21.0 19.4 n/a
1993 466 22.9 20.3 n/a
1994 471 23.9 19.7 n/a
1995 458 23.0 19.9 n/a
1996 458 23.0 19.9 n/a
1997 471 23.0 20.5 n/a
1998 446 25.0 17.8 n/a
1999 449 24.0 18.7 n/a
2000 445 26.0 17.1 n/a
2001 448 25.0 17.9 n/a
2002 421 24.0 17.5 n/a
2003 421 24.0 17.5 n/a
2004 431 22.0 19.6 77.5
2005 421 25.1 16.8 72
2006 426 22.1 19.3 12.4
2007 428 21.6 19.8 59.6
2008 436 23.9 18.2 61.9
2009 427 22.9 18.6 60.7
2010 347 21.5 16.1 66.6
2011 355 19.8 17.9 68.7
2012 386 18.5 20.8 75.6
2013 383 20.5 18.6 77
2014 369 20.0 18.4 77
2015 348 16.0 21.7 77.3
2016 493 23.0 21.4 66.1
2017 478 23.1 20.6 68.8
2018 470 22.7 20.6 60.9
2019 480 24.0 20.0 56.9
2020 472 24.8 19.0 49.8
2021 397 21.0 18.9 n/a
2022 405 23.0 17.6 22.5
2023 389 25.0 15.5 41.6
2024 407 20.0 20.3 n/a

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1990 427 n/a n/a n/a
1991 434 21.0 20.6 n/a
1992 409 21.0 19.4 n/a
1993 466 22.9 20.3 n/a
1994 471 23.9 19.7 n/a
1995 458 23.0 19.9 n/a
1996 458 23.0 19.9 n/a
1997 471 23.0 20.5 n/a
1998 446 25.0 17.8 n/a
1999 449 24.0 18.7 n/a
2000 445 26.0 17.1 n/a
2001 448 25.0 17.9 n/a
2002 421 24.0 17.5 n/a
2003 421 24.0 17.5 n/a
2004 431 22.0 19.6 77.5
2005 421 25.1 16.8 72
2006 426 22.1 19.3 12.4
2007 428 21.6 19.8 59.6
2008 436 23.9 18.2 61.9
2009 427 22.9 18.6 60.7
2010 347 21.5 16.1 66.6
2011 355 19.8 17.9 68.7
2012 386 18.5 20.8 75.6
2013 383 20.5 18.6 77
2014 369 20.0 18.4 77
2015 348 16.0 21.7 77.3
2016 493 23.0 21.4 66.1
2017 478 23.1 20.6 68.8
2018 470 22.7 20.6 60.9
2019 480 24.0 20.0 56.9
2020 472 24.8 19.0 49.8
2021 397 21.0 18.9 n/a
2022 405 23.0 17.6 22.5
2023 389 25.0 15.5 41.6
2024 407 20.0 20.3 n/a

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

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YearPersonnel Expenditures from Federal FundsNon-Personnel Expenditures from Federal FundsTotal Expenditures from Federal FundsPersonnel Expenditures from State and Local FundsNon-Personnel Expenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures from State and Local FundsTotal Expenditures Per Pupil (All Funds)
2019 $312 (6.1%) $97 (1.9%) $721 (14.1%) $4,299 (84.1%) $402 (7.9%) $4,700 (92.0%) $5,110
2020 $359 (6.5%) $467 (8.4%) $1,185 (21.4%) $4,628 (83.6%) $79 (1.4%) $4,708 (85.1%) $5,534
2021 $490 (8.1%) $424 (7.0%) $1,403 (23.1%) $4,468 (73.5%) $693 (11.4%) $5,161 (85.0%) $6,075
2022 $811 (9.7%) $293 (3.5%) $1,914 (22.9%) $6,131 (73.4%) $1,114 (13.3%) $7,245 (86.8%) $8,349

Data source: Arizona Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School

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Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 505th of 1039 Elementary schoolsRanks 601st of 1245 Elementary schools
 0.3%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students480389
 19%
African American36
 100%
American Indian1724
 41.2%
Asian56
 20%
Hispanic9288
 4.3%
Pacific Islander01
White356261
 26.7%
Two or More Races73
 57.1%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients56.9%41.6%
 15.2%


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Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School ranks 609th of 912 Arizona elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 2 stars out of 5.

In the 2023-24 school year, 407 students attended Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School.

Students at Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School are 68% White, 22% Hispanic, 6% American Indian, 2% African American.

Students who attend Nikolaus Homestead Elementary School usually go on to attend:

Middle : Show Low Junior High School
Alternative : Show Low High School


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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Arizona Department of Education.

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