EMERSON-HUBBARD MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 1503 DAKOTA ST, in EMERSON, Nebraska, EMERSON-HUBBARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a micro-enrollment junior high that instructs 40 students (grades 6 through 8), run under EMERSON-HUBBARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Compared to the state average of about 411 students per school, that is 90% leaner than typical.

EMERSON-HUBBARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 211 students; EMERSON-HUBBARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, EMERSON-HUBBARD MIDDLE SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 75%. Beyond that, the school reports 18% Hispanic, 8% Native American. By comparison, Thurston County as a whole is about 37% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, EMERSON-HUBBARD MIDDLE SCHOOL has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.0:1. The state averages around 14.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at EMERSON-HUBBARD MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Thurston County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EMERSON-HUBBARD MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 56.1%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Thurston County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,177 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Thurston County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,146 students), of which EMERSON-HUBBARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is EMERSON-HUBBARD HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EMERSON-HUBBARD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 64.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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