MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

Set in MAYWOOD, Nebraska, MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is an one-room-style secondary school, one of the schools within MAYWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It teaches 91 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 77% leaner than the state mean of about 391.

Across the 2 schools in MAYWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS (186 students total), MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Frontier County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.6:1 average. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.0%; this one delivers 60.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Frontier County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,132 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Frontier County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 568 students), of which MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is one.

MAYWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, MAYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 44%: 63 students in 2018 compared to 91 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 95% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 5.6:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.