BRUNING-DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCH

BRUNING-DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCH, a rural-scale intermediate school in DAVENPORT, Nebraska, one of the schools within BRUNING-DAVENPORT UNIFIED SYS, enrolls 51 students, covering grades 5 through 8. That puts it 88% leaner than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 411 students.

BRUNING-DAVENPORT UNIFIED SYS runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 187 students. BRUNING-DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCH is one of those campuses.

Demographically, BRUNING-DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCH shows that nearly all students (94%) are White. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Thayer County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BRUNING-DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCH is in the bottom 10% of Nebraska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 65.4%; BRUNING-DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCH posts 51.9%, -13.5 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Thayer County shows median household earnings sit near $66,213, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Thayer County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 880 students), of which BRUNING-DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCH is one.

Nearest neighbor: BRUNING-DAVENPORT ELEM/DAVENPT, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BRUNING-DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCH at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 61.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRUNING-DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCH has changed only slightly, going from 50 students in 2018 to 51 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 100% to 94% over that span.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.