Uplifting advice needed

Please bear with me if this gets lengthy ?

I haven’t spoken to anyone about this, have kept it bottled up out of fear of not articulating it right and coming off as bragging or a “know it all.” 

I’m currently in nursing school. I’ve always wanted to be a nurse but it has been a LONG road getting here, finally put into motion by the nurses who were bedside when one of my favorite little humans passed away from a terminal illness a few years ago. I don’t want to go into too much detail since I’m unsure of who all may come across this.

To say I’m humbled and grateful to be in nursing school, is an understatement. Everything I do is in honor of a life that was cut entirely too short, so I give 1000% every single day. And it’s paying off in a big way academically. In conjunction with a small, part time job I have to gain experience - I feel like I’m finally moving in the right direction, and the nurses I work with are unbelievably supportive and encouraging. 

I can’t really elaborate on what’s going on specifically at school, but it almost feels as if there’s a target on my back for doing so well. I don’t present as a “know it all”, I try to fly under the radar as I felt in the first few weeks I was being too helpful (I have ems experience also and was able to help out in group work when it came to the basics), so I have pulled back. 

I feel I’m disliked by the people in leadership roles at school, to the point I feel I’m skipped over all together during even question-and-answer type discussions. 

I’ve come right out and asked one of my instructors if I’ve done something wrong and was assured not at all, but yet, it still feels that way. I know I’m there to learn, and shouldn’t care what others think, but feeling this dark, passive aggressive energy daily is extremely draining and almost makes me feel like educating me in any sense is the last thing they want to be doing. 

I thought doing my best was what was expected, and I find myself feeling that anything above average is off-putting to the staff. I’m so sorry if this comes off in any way that may seem ill-intended/braggy (that is the last way I want this post to seem), I really just want to make it thru this with my mental health in tact. I took years to work thru therapy, grief, trauma, multiple diagnoses to get here in one piece mentally and physically and I feel very disheartened right now that this is even an issue at my age. 

Any input or advice at all?