BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL

BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL is a minimally staffed 9-12 campus in BLOOMFIELD, Nebraska, run under BLOOMFIELD COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. The school enrolls 141 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 391 students each, so BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL sits 64% below that benchmark.

Within BLOOMFIELD COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 287 students, BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). The remainder is composed of 14% Hispanic, 4% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 43% of students at BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Knox County's rate of about 30%.

After controlling for student poverty, BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Nebraska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 61.5%; BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL posts 70.0%, +8.5 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Knox County reports that median household income runs about $64,636, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Knox County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,757 students), of which BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

BLOOMFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 63.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. BLOOMFIELD JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 33% since 2018, when it stood at 106 (now 141). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.5:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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