NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 2710 N NORTH RD, in GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL is an expansive senior high that instructs 680 students (grades 9 through 12), run under NORTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 391 students each, so NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL sits 74% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in NORTHWEST PUBLIC SCHOOLS (1,445 students total), NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 65% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hall County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,251 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL is one of 32 public schools in Hall County (combined enrollment of about 12,203 students).

Nearest neighbor: ENGLEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 742 students in 2018 compared to 680 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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