NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL

NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier 6-8 campuss in FIRTH, Nebraska, part of NORRIS SCHOOL DIST 160, with 560 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 411 students each, so NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 36% above that benchmark.

Within NORRIS SCHOOL DIST 160, which oversees 4 schools and 2,343 students, NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL records that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Lancaster County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.5:1, putting NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 8% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lancaster County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 73.6%; this one comes in at 59.5%, -14.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Lancaster County put median household earnings sit near $74,793, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 97 public schools in Lancaster County (combined enrollment of about 48,123 students).

Nearest neighbor: NORRIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NORRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 69.0%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 7%: 525 students in 2018 compared to 560 in 2025.

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