MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedWhat this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 8 points, placing it in Nebraska's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a minimally staffed elementary campus in MAYWOOD, Nebraska, run under MAYWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The school enrolls 95 students in grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 272 students per school, that is 65% leaner than typical.
Across the 2 schools in MAYWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS (186 students total), MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder comes out to 9% Hispanic. Compared to Frontier County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Frontier County's rate of about 42%.
After controlling for student poverty, MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Nebraska schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 56.8%; actual is 65.3%, +8.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Frontier County) shows that median household earnings sit near $70,132, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Frontier County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 568 students), of which MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 63.7%.
MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.
Looking at the recent track record. MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 107 (now 95). White enrollment moved from 95% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.
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