HARVARD HIGH SCHOOL

Set in HARVARD, Nebraska, HARVARD HIGH SCHOOL is a tiny senior high, one of the schools within HARVARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It hosts 50 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 391 students each, so HARVARD HIGH SCHOOL sits 87% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in HARVARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS (194 students total), HARVARD HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, HARVARD HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.6:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Clay County shows median household income runs about $78,986, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Clay County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,566 students), of which HARVARD HIGH SCHOOL is one.

HARVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. HARVARD HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 44% since 2018, when it stood at 89 (now 50). Hispanic enrollment moved from 24% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 6.4:1 in 2018 to 5.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.