GARDEN COUNTY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

GARDEN COUNTY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a micro-enrollment four-year high school in OSHKOSH, Nebraska, overseen by GARDEN COUNTY SCHOOLS. The school works with 96 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 75% leaner than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 391 students.

GARDEN COUNTY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 2 schools operated by GARDEN COUNTY SCHOOLS, a district that teaches 236 students overall.

On the student-mix side, GARDEN COUNTY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 16% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 94%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.6:1 average. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GARDEN COUNTY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.6%, the actual is 59.5%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the area at large, Garden County reports that the typical household earns roughly $41,882 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Garden County's 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 236 students), GARDEN COUNTY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: GARDEN COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCH, around 0.4 miles off.

GARDEN COUNTY JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 107 students in 2018 compared to 96 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 8.9:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 today.

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