Lincoln Public Schools

Lincoln Public Schools district office

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]

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]

  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.