ESU 10 Mission

Educational Service Unit 10 partners with our customers to meet
changing needs through professional expertise, training, and support.

In 1965, the Nebraska Legislature created the Educational Service Unit system to provide supplemental services to school districts. ESUs are service-oriented, nonregulatory agencies designed to achieve a better balance of educational opportunities for students regardless of the population, financial differences, or geographic limitations of school districts.

The governing unit consists of an elected board of 15 members—one representative from each county and four representatives elected at-large. Meetings are conducted at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month.

Educational Service Unit 10 utilizes an advisory committee structure for the purpose of receiving feedback and developing recommendations for services which are provided to schools. Local school administrators and county superintendents are elected by their peers to serve on the Administrator Advisory Committee which meets at least four times during the year. The recommendations of the committee are considered by the school districts in the ESU 10 area. Once two-thirds of the school districts which contain at least one-half of the student population approve the administrator advisory committee recommendations, the Board of Directors makes the final decisions concerning the program of services for the unit.

In 2005-2006 Educational Service Unit 10 employed 105 staff members who provided services to students in the counties of Blaine, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Garfield, Greeley, Hall, Howard, Loup, Sherman, and Valley.  Included in these counties are 39 K-6 districts, 31 K-12 districts, 3 Class VI districts, and 13 parochial schools.  The area served covers approximately 10,550 square miles and includes an estimated 29,400 students in grades K-12.