Holdrege Public Schools is the school district for Holdrege and the country around it, in Phelps County. The district office is at 505 14th Ave. Nebraska school districts are run by a board elected locally, and the district is the body that hires the teachers, runs the buses and sets the calendar for every school under it. It belongs to Educational Service Unit 11 at Holdrege, which supplies special education staff, technology support, training and shared services that a single district could not carry alone.