HUMPHREY JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL

HUMPHREY JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL, an one-room-style secondary school in HUMPHREY, Nebraska, run under HUMPHREY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, instructs 132 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 66% smaller than the state mean of about 391.

Across the 3 schools in HUMPHREY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (322 students total), HUMPHREY JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, HUMPHREY JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, Platte County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Platte County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Platte County) logs that median household income runs about $71,552, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Platte County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,530 students), HUMPHREY JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

HUMPHREY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 27%: 104 students in 2018 compared to 132 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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