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PIERCE JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL · PIERCE, NE
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NSCAS, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % On Track + Advanced.
English Language Arts
67.2%
State avg 57.6%
District avg 64.5%
County avg 62.8%
Mathematics
75.2%
State avg 60.6%
District avg 75.1%
County avg 70.6%
Science
N/A
State avg 73.4%
District avg 77.8%
County avg 75.6%

What this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
65.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.9%
based on NE schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Nebraska's top nor bottom 10%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 746.9%47.5%4973.5%50.4%49N/AN/AN/A
Grade 862.8%52.5%5165.0%50.3%60N/A64.1%N/A

1-year history

All grades, all students. PIERCE JR/SR   Nebraska avg

English Language Arts

58672024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2567.2%64.5%62.8%57.6%

Mathematics

61752024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2575.2%75.1%70.6%60.6%

How to read these scores

What is NSCAS?
NSCAS is the statewide standardized test administered by Nebraska public schools.
What does "% On Track + Advanced" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 67.2% mean for English Language Arts at PIERCE JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL?
It means about 67.2 percent of students tested at PIERCE JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL performed at grade level or above on the NSCAS English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Nebraska that year was 57.6%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Nebraska, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Nebraska Department of Education, Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS). School-level All Students subgroup from the NEP public data downloads (nepdata.education.ne.gov). Headline metric is the cumulative "On Track + Advanced" rate (top 2 of 3 NSCAS levels: Developing / On Track / Advanced).
How often is it updated?
NSCAS is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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