ELKHORN VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL

ELKHORN VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is a large middle-grades school in ELKHORN, Nebraska, operated by ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school caters to 679 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 65% larger than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 411 students.

Across the 20 schools in ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS (11,653 students total), ELKHORN VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, ELKHORN VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, The school lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 5% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Douglas County runs at roughly 25%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELKHORN VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.7%, the actual is 82.6%, a residual of +7.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,391 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Douglas County's 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), ELKHORN VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

ELKHORN SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELKHORN VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 82.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 21%: 562 students in 2018 compared to 679 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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