BOONE CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

BOONE CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a junior high of one-room-style scale in ALBION, Nebraska, one of the schools within BOONE CENTRAL SCHOOLS, teacheing 146 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 64% leaner than the state mean of about 411.

BOONE CENTRAL SCHOOLS comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 603 students; BOONE CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, BOONE CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.5:1, putting BOONE CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, BOONE CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.3%; this one delivers 65.6%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Boone County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,947 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Boone County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 918 students), BOONE CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BOONE CENTRAL ELEM-ALBION, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 25%: 117 students in 2018 compared to 146 in 2025.

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