AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL

AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL is a compact 9-12 campus in AMHERST, Nebraska, operated by AMHERST PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school teaches 157 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 60% below the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 391 students.

Within AMHERST PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 360 students, AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (94%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL reports 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 17% of students at AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Buffalo County (around 33%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.4%, the actual is 67.6%, a residual of -2.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Buffalo County put median household earnings sit near $75,911, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Buffalo County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,449 students), of which AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL is one.

AMHERST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at AMHERST HIGH SCHOOL has declined 10%, going from 175 students in 2018 to 157 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 99% to 94%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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