BLUE HILL HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 606 S SYCAMORE, in BLUE HILL, Nebraska, BLUE HILL HIGH SCHOOL is a minimally staffed 9-12 campus that works with 132 students (grades 7 through 12), part of BLUE HILL COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 66% smaller than the state mean of about 391.

Within BLUE HILL COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 315 students, BLUE HILL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, BLUE HILL HIGH SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Webster County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.6:1 average. Roughly 23% of students at BLUE HILL HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Webster County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, BLUE HILL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.2%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of -6.0 points.

Across the wider county, Webster County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,347 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. BLUE HILL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 5 public schools in Webster County (combined enrollment of about 748 students).

BLUE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, BLUE HILL HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. BLUE HILL HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 151 (now 132). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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