HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 501 S BROADWAY, in HARTINGTON, Nebraska, HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL is a tight-knit high school that teaches 170 students (grades 7 through 12), part of HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Compared to the state average of about 391 students per school, that is 57% below typical.

Within HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 373 students, HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 35% of students at HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Nebraska schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 64.2%; actual is 74.4%, +10.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cedar County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,578 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 10 public schools in Cedar County (combined enrollment of about 1,215 students).

HARTINGTON-NEWCASTLE ELEM AT HARTINGTON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARTINGTON NEWCASTLE HIGH SCHOOL has expanded 20%, going from 142 students in 2018 to 170 in 2025.

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