PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL
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Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedWhat this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 69% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL
PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL, a small intermediate school in SPRINGFIELD, Nebraska, overseen by SPRINGFIELD PLATTEVIEW COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, works with 179 students, covering grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 411 students each, so PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL sits 56% below that benchmark.
SPRINGFIELD PLATTEVIEW COMMUNITY SCHOOLS runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,230 students. PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (93%) are White. The remainder comes out to 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 69.2%; this one comes in at 60.0%, -9.1 points off the demographic line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sarpy County) shows that median household income runs about $103,321, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sarpy County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,055 students), of which PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is PLATTEVIEW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 69.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 199 students in 2018 compared to 179 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.
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