PALMER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH

PALMER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH is a four-year high school of one-room-style scale in PALMER, Nebraska, operated by PALMER PUBLIC SCHOOLS, caters to 129 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 67% below the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 391 students.

PALMER PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 313 students. PALMER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH is one of those campuses.

On demographics, PALMER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. The state averages about 10.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 36% of students at PALMER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, PALMER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.6%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Merrick County put the typical household earns roughly $68,354 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Merrick County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,252 students), of which PALMER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, PALMER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALMER JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH has shrank 10%, going from 144 students in 2018 to 129 in 2025.

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