SCHOO MIDDLE SCHOOL

SCHOO MIDDLE SCHOOL is a junior high of roomy scale in LINCOLN, Nebraska, one of the schools within LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, educateing 1,006 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 411 students per school, that is 145% above typical.

LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 42,301 students; SCHOO MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, SCHOO MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 60% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Black, 6% Asian. By comparison, Lancaster County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, SCHOO MIDDLE SCHOOL has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.5:1, putting SCHOO MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lancaster County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SCHOO MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 60.8%; this one comes in at 52.0%, -8.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Lancaster County) logs that median household income runs about $74,793, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Lancaster County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,123 students), SCHOO MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

FREDSTROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOO MIDDLE SCHOOL.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 17%: 862 students in 2018 compared to 1,006 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 60% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.