JEFFERSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

JEFFERSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in FAIRBURY, Nebraska, part of FAIRBURY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 259 students spanning grades 3 through 6.

FAIRBURY PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 906 students. JEFFERSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JEFFERSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (84%) are White. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting JEFFERSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Jefferson County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, JEFFERSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.5%; actual is 46.7%, a gap of -9.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Jefferson County shows median household earnings sit near $59,044, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,683 students), JEFFERSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is FAIRBURY JR-SR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around JEFFERSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JEFFERSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 7%: 243 students in 2018 compared to 259 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 8% to 12%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.