Enrollment
261
Middle
DISTRICT 262 · STATE 411
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 310291000012
ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL
11TH & LARAMIE, ALLIANCE, NE 69301 · (308) 762-3079 · Box Butte County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL261 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of Nebraska public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Nebraska public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 14.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
158 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 37%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 98 | 38% |
| Grade 7 | 85 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 78 | 30% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL→ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
46.5%
NE avg 57.6%
Math
51.3%
NE avg 60.6%
What this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
Source: NSCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.1%
based on NE schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Nebraska's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL
ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (49.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 261 | 60.5% | 49.2% |
| NEBRASKA CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL NEBRASKA CITY | 271 | 58.3% | 46.4% |
| WEST POINT - BEEMER MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST POINT | 181 | 53.0% | 63.1% |
| HASTINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL HASTINGS | 757 | 63.0% | 46.6% |
| NORFOLK MIDDLE SCHOOL NORFOLK | 628 | 54.9% | 56.0% |
| MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH PLATTE | 263 | 52.5% | 50.5% |
Matched among Nebraska middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Nebraska |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.2% | #71 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #71 of 108 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #80 of 109 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 261 | #81 of 143 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #46 of 88 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.9% | #25 of 88 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.5% | #10 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.4% | #32 of 52 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
261
-32 (-11%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 531
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 261 | 18.1 | 14.4:1 | 61% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 276 | 19.6 | 14.1:1 | 63% (175) |
| 2022-23 | 286 | 21.3 | 13.4:1 | 57% (163) |
| 2020-21 | 293 | 19 | 15.4:1 | 47% (139) |
| 2017-18 | 276 | 23.6 | 11.7:1 | 54% (150) |
| 2015-16 | 441 | 30 | 14.7:1 | 54% (240) |
| 2010-11 | 442 | 38 | 11.6:1 | 55% (243) |
| 2000-01 | 423 | 36 | 11.8:1 | 35% (146) |
| 1990-91 | 531 | 32 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (276 to 261); teachers down 23% (23.6 to 18.1).
About ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL
ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a low-enrollment middle-grades school in Nebraska, with an address in ALLIANCE. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 261 students enrolled. The average among middle schools in Nebraska is roughly 411 students; this school is 36% smaller than that.
The district, ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, operates 5 schools serving 1,310 students.
White students account for 60% of enrollment at ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Other students are 30% Hispanic, 5% Native American, and 4% multiracial. That is lower than the 82% White share among all Box Butte County residents. By the diversity index, ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 55%.
ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL's 18.1 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 14.4:1. Middle schools in Nebraska average about 14.5:1, a similar figure. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 61%. The 49% average for public schools in Box Butte County is 12 points lower.
allk12 grades ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL a C+. The grade compares the school only with Nebraska public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is -6.0 points: 49.2% actual, 55.1% predicted.
Among Box Butte County residents, median household income is about $68,892, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 7 public schools in Box Butte County, with a combined enrollment of about 1,693.
The school nearest to ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th in a group of 4 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Remote.
Enrollment was 293 in 2020-21 and 261 in 2024-25, a decrease of 32 students. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.4:1 to 14.4:1.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Box Butte County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
10,714
Census ACS
Median income
$68,892
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
7
1,693 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 451 students
- GRANDVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 283 students
- EMERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 237 students
- ALLIANCE EARLY CHILD ED PROGElementary · 78 students
Other schools in ALLIANCE
- ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 451 students
- GRANDVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 283 students
- EMERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 237 students
- ALLIANCE EARLY CHILD ED PROGElementary · 78 students
Other Alliance Middle schools
One other US public school is named Alliance Middle. ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Alliance Middle SchoolAlliance, OH · 584 students
Nearby schools
- ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 451
- EMERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 237
- ALLIANCE EARLY CHILD ED PROG0.6 mi · 78
- GRANDVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 283
- HEMINGFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL18.3 mi · 209
- HEMINGFORD HIGH SCHOOL18.3 mi · 174
Frequently asked questions
About ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 261 students in grades 06-08.
Is ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 60% White, 30% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
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