Small schools fading away with rural populations

Twenty-five miles off the main highway, deep in a cradle of sand dunes bound together by prairie grass, a one-lane ribbon of asphalt southeast of town ends abruptly at a barbed-wire fence.

Cattle roam on one side, and on the other sits a school that’s in danger of becoming a relic in this wide-open, north-central Nebraska region that is among the most sparsely populated in the country.

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