McPherson County Schools serves McPherson County, one of the emptiest counties in the state, and the ranch country around it. The district office is at 525 Hwy 92. 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 16 at Ogallala, which supplies special education staff, technology support, training and shared services that a single district could not carry alone.