HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL

HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a heavily attended intermediate school in OMAHA, Nebraska, part of MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 898 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 118% larger than the state mean of about 411.

HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 34 schools operated by MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that caters to 23,253 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 68% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. Compared to Douglas County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages around 14.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Douglas County (around 25%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 63.1%; this one comes in at 53.9%, -9.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Douglas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,391 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Douglas County runs 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), of which HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

NEIHARDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARRY ANDERSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged down 4%, going from 936 students in 2018 to 898 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 79% to 68%.

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