Schools & Colleges

 

Type of School	Classrooms	Students	Teacher/Pupil Ratio	Computer Pupil/Ratio
Elementary	22	301	1 to 15	1 to 3
Middle School	18	285	1 to 14	1 to 3
High School	27	329	1 to 15	1 to 3
Catholic School (Elementary)	6	65	1 to 12	1 to 4

  

For more information on Wayne Community Schools, click here.

 

Wayne has a Region IV Office of Developmental Disabilities.  This is an agency providing habilitation services to children and adults living in the 20 counties of northeast Nebraska.  The agency has service sites in seven communities.  The Wayne office operates an Adult Developmental Center and eight residential settings. 

  

Residents in Wayne can participate in the Educational Service Unit #1, which is headquartered in Wakefield and serves a six-county area.  One major satellite program is located in Wayne to serve the mild/moderate and behaviorally disordered students as referred by school districts throughout the region.  ESU #1 serves special needs children from birth to age 21 by providing various services such as speech therapy, audiology, psychology, vision impaired, transition counseling, school nurse, and physical and occupational therapy.

 

Northeast Community College provides additional educational opportunities through their location in Norfolk using distance-learning technology in partnership with Wayne High School and Wayne State College.  They also offer seminars on a wide variety of topics in their Lifelong Learning Center.

 

Wayne is also the home of Wayne State College, which serves about 3,500 students throughout Nebraska and Iowa as well as several other states, and some foreign countries.  WSC offers more than 40 majors and minors in four academic schools including: School of Arts & Humanities, School of Business & Technology, School of Education & Counseling, and School of Natural & Social Sciences.  Masters degrees are also available in several areas.  For more information check out this website.  http://www.wsc.edu/