Map of Active and Previous Participating Schools

Know Your Well works with a group of interested high school students to learn the basics of groundwater, well construction and most importantly how to properly test your well for drinking water quality. Students from multiple schools across the state will both test and send samples to a university laboratory for additional tests and to compare their results to those from the laboratory. All results are confidential but will be collected and used by researchers to assess private well water quality across Nebraska.

All participating KYW schools as of Spring 2025

Participating Schools

School By Name

 (Year Started Participating and/or Project)

  • Auburn High School (2017)
  • Banner County High School (2019)
  • Bryan High School (2023)
  • Callaway High School (2019)
  • Central City High School (2017)
  • Chadron High School (2022)
  • Cody-Kilgore High School (2018)
  • Crawford High School (2019)
  • Creighton High School  (Bazile)
  • Crofton High School (2025)
  • Dorchester High School (2024)
  • Freeman High School (2018)
  • Garden County High School (2019)
  • Kearney High School (2019)
  • Kenesaw High School (2025)
  • Laurel-Concord-Coleridge High School (2024)
  • Louisville Middle School (2024)
  • Madison High School (2018)
  • McCook High School (2019)
  • McCool Junction High School (2018)
  • Mullen High School (2022)
  • Newman Grove High School (2017)
  • Norris High School (2023)
  • Orchard High School (2020)
  • Osmond High School (2018)
  • Pierce High School(2022)
  • Plainview High School (2020)
  • Schuyler High School (2023)
  • Seward High School (2023)
  • Sterling High School (2019)
  • Stuart High School (2018)
  • Superior High School (2019)
  • Tekamah-Herman High school (2022)
  • Wauneta-Pallisade High School (2019)
  • Wausa High School (Bazile)
  • Waverly High School (2017)
  • Westview High School (2024)

School by Starting Year

  • 2017 Schools 
    • Waverly High School 
    • Central City High School 
    • Newman Grove High School 
    • Auburn High School 
  • 2018 Schools 
    • Cody-Kilgore High School 
    • Freeman High School 
    • Madison High School 
    • Stuart High School
    • Osmond High School 
    • McCool Junction High School 
  • 2019 Schools 
    • Sterling High School 
    • Banner County High School 
    • Garden County High School 
    • Callaway Public Schools 
    • Kearney High School
    • Crawford High School
    • Superior High School 
    • McCook High School 
    • Wauneta Palisade High School 
  • 2020 Schools 
    • Wausa Public Schools 
    • Orchard High School
    • Creighton High School
    • Plainview High School
  • 2022 Schools 
    • Chadron High School 
    • Tekamah-Herman High School
    • Mullen High School 
    • Bryan High School 
    • Schuyler High School 
    • Pierce Public High School
  • 2023 Schools
    • Norris High School
    • Bryan High School
    • Schuyler High School
  • 2024 Schools
    • Dorchester High School
    • Louisville Middle School
    • Laurel-Concord-Coleridge High School
    • Westview High School
  • 2025 Schools
    • Kenesaw High School
    • Crofton High School