GRETNA MIDDLE SCHOOL

GRETNA MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a substantial 6-8 campus in GRETNA, Nebraska, run under GRETNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 784 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 411 students each, so GRETNA MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 91% above that benchmark.

GRETNA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 12 schools operated by GRETNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that enrolls 7,013 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GRETNA MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Sarpy County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.5:1 average. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sarpy County runs at roughly 23%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, GRETNA MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.2%, the actual is 64.9%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Sarpy County put the typical household earns roughly $103,321 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Sarpy County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,055 students), GRETNA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GRETNA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRETNA MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 71.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GRETNA MIDDLE SCHOOL has rose 18%, going from 667 students in 2018 to 784 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 94% to 88% over that span.

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