RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in OMAHA, Nebraska, RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a sizable middle-grades school, operated by MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It educates 760 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 85% bigger than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 411 students.

MILLARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 23,253 students. RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.5:1, putting RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 18% of students at RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.0%; this one delivers 69.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate median household income runs about $80,391, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Douglas County's 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

WILLOWDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RUSSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.6%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 784 students in 2018 compared to 760 in 2025.

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