LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
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Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedWhat this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 72% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
As a rural-scale middle school in LOUISVILLE, Nebraska, LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves 107 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within LOUISVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 74% leaner than the state mean of about 411.
Within LOUISVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 3 schools and 688 students, LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.5:1 average. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cass County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 72.2%; actual is 61.8%, a gap of -10.4 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cass County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,836, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 15 public schools in Cass County (combined enrollment of about 3,932 students).
LOUISVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 67.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Trend over the last 7 years. LOUISVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 140 (now 107). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.
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