NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

As a close-knit high school in NORTH BEND, Nebraska, NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL teaches 174 students from grades 9 through 12, part of NORTH BEND CENTRAL PUBLIC SCHS. That puts it 55% smaller than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 391 students.

NORTH BEND CENTRAL PUBLIC SCHS comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 574 students; NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages about 10.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dodge County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.0%, the actual is 72.7%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Dodge County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,329 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 22 public schools in Dodge County (combined enrollment of about 6,729 students).

NORTH BEND CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 69.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. NORTH BEND CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 25% since 2018, when it stood at 232 (now 174).

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