NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 8204 CROWN POINT AVE, in OMAHA, Nebraska, NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL is a roomy 9-12 campus that teaches 1,517 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 288% above the state mean of about 391.

Within OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 94 schools and 52,524 students, NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 19% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL reports 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.6:1, putting NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Douglas County put the typical household earns roughly $80,391 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL is one of 207 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students).

BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL.

NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 1,747 students in 2018 compared to 1,517 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.

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