FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL

FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the close-knit middle schools in FALLS CITY, Nebraska, run under FALLS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 168 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 59% leaner than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 411 students.

FALLS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 899 students; FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% multiracial, 6% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 91% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages around 14.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Richardson County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.8%, the actual is 57.4%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Richardson County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,108 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 7 public schools in Richardson County (combined enrollment of about 1,217 students).

The closest other public school is FALLS CITY SENIOR HIGH, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. FALLS CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 177 (now 168). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 6% to 2%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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