NSCAS, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % On Track + Advanced.English Language Arts
81.1%
State avg 57.6%
District avg 73.2%
County avg 57.6%
Mathematics
81.3%
State avg 60.6%
District avg 76.3%
County avg 60.6%
Science
92.8%
State avg 73.4%
District avg 89.4%
County avg 71.1%
What this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 81 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 93 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58, 61, and 73.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NE schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
84.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.2%
based on NE schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 73% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 11 points, placing it in Nebraska's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →What is NSCAS?
NSCAS is the statewide standardized test administered by Nebraska public schools.
What does "% On Track + Advanced" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 81.1% mean for English Language Arts at BENNINGTON SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
It means about 81.1 percent of students tested at BENNINGTON SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL performed at grade level or above on the NSCAS English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Nebraska that year was 57.6%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Nebraska, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS). School-level All Students subgroup from the NEP public data downloads (nepdata.education.ne.gov). Headline metric is the cumulative "On Track + Advanced" rate (top 2 of 3 NSCAS levels: Developing / On Track / Advanced).
How often is it updated?
NSCAS is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.
