Lincoln Public Schools is the only public school district in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. It is the second largest of Nebraska's 596 school districts, surpassed only by Omaha Public Schools. LPS educates more than 35,000 students in 57 schools.
The current superintendent is Steve Joel, who was recently elected in March 2010. He was the superintendent for Grand Island Public Schools.
As of 2010 students of Lincoln Public Schools speak 52 languages. This is due to Lincoln being a destination of many refugees, who settled there since the U.S. Government declared Lincoln a refugee-friendly city in the 1970s.
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