HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 600 14TH AVE, in HOLDREGE, Nebraska, HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a cozy intermediate school that works with 290 students (grades 5 through 8), one of the schools within HOLDREGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 411 students each, so HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by HOLDREGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that enrolls 1,006 students overall.

Looking at the student body, HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 12% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.5:1, putting HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.2%; this one delivers 60.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Phelps County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,919, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Phelps County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,514 students), of which HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

HOLDREGE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOLDREGE MIDDLE SCHOOL has shrank 11%, going from 325 students in 2018 to 290 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 12% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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