To save administrative costs for both Lorenzo and District 77 Chuck Bunner, Superintendent of nearby Sidney Public Schools, serves as principal for both districts. School District 77 District 77 is a typical two-room country school. At one time, however, both upstairs rooms were filled with desks and hot lunches were served in the basement. Today, there is no hot lunch program or bus service. Yet parents on surrounding farms and from nearby Sidney take their children to and from school each day.
Some parents carpool, and one student is close enough to walk.
Wendy Gamble, no stranger to rural schools, is pleased with her second and third grade assignment at District 77. Previously she taught sixth, seventh, and some eighth graders at a rural school with 65 students. She also taught fourth grade at a Catholic school in Kansas. Gamble said individualized instruction and being able to work with the kids on a concept until it is mastered are the best things the kids get in small classes. Cody Gamble taught two years at a rural school near Thermopolis, Wyo., before coming to Sidney.