ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
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Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedWhat this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 70% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
Set in ASHLAND, Nebraska, ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a close-knit intermediate school, one of the schools within ASHLAND-GREENWOOD PUBLIC SCHS. It educates 247 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 40% smaller than the state mean of about 411.
ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by ASHLAND-GREENWOOD PUBLIC SCHS, a district that educates 1,149 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. Compared to Saunders County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages about 14.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Saunders County runs at roughly 26%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Nebraska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 70.5%; ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 57.6%, -12.9 points below that line.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Saunders County indicate median household income runs about $94,066, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 18 public schools in Saunders County (combined enrollment of about 3,755 students).
ASHLAND-GREENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 68.7%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked up 18%, going from 209 students in 2018 to 247 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
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