Hay Springs Public Schools is a K-12 school district serving Hay Springs and surrounding communities in Sheridan County, Nebraska.

Heartland Community Schools, the public school district based in Henderson, York County.

The High Plains Agricultural Laboratory is a 2,410-acre University of Nebraska research farm six miles north of Sidney on Highway 385, in Cheyenne County — about 710 acres of crop land in seventeen fields and 1,700 acres of pasture in twelve pastures. It runs 50 to 60 trials a year in agronomy, plant breeding, plant pathology, soil fertility, irrigation, entomology, weed science, agricultural economics and livestock nutrition, and holds an annual field day.