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Alumni: what's one memory from SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
416
Middle
DISTRICT 495 · STATE 411
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEWARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 317656001592
SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL
2401 KAROL KAY BLVD, SEWARD, NE 68434 · (402) 643-2986 · Seward County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE32-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL416 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% of Nebraska public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Nebraska public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 14.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
79 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 37%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 100 | 24% |
| Grade 6 | 111 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 92 | 22% |
| Grade 8 | 113 | 27% |
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL→SEWARD HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SEWARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
69.6%
NE avg 57.6%
Math
80.6%
NE avg 60.6%
What this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
Source: NSCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
74.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.8%
based on NE schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% 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 →
Schools most like SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL
SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (74.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 416 | 19.0% | 74.5% |
| GERALD OTTE BLAIR MIDDLE SCH BLAIR | 481 | 22.0% | 65.9% |
| MIDDLE SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE SYRACUSE | 286 | 19.2% | 66.9% |
| DOUGLAS CO WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL VALLEY | 233 | 25.3% | 58.4% |
| ASHLAND-GREENWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL ASHLAND | 247 | 17.0% | 57.6% |
| PLATTEVIEW CENTRAL JR HIGH SCHOOL SPRINGFIELD | 179 | 20.7% | 60.0% |
Matched among Nebraska middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Nebraska |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.5% | #8 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.6% | #6 of 108 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #18 of 109 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 416 | #67 of 143 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #28 of 88 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.2% | #85 of 88 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.0% | #71 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.5% | #39 of 52 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
416
-2 (0%) vs 2020
+52% since 1990-91, when it was 274
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 416 | 31.5 | 13.2:1 | 19% (79) |
| 2023-24 | 426 | 31.1 | 13.7:1 | 23% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 422 | 31.1 | 13.6:1 | 20% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 418 | 29 | 14.4:1 | 24% (100) |
| 2017-18 | 431 | 29.2 | 14.8:1 | 24% (102) |
| 2015-16 | 421 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 28% (118) |
| 2010-11 | 411 | 28 | 14.7:1 | 24% (97) |
| 2000-01 | 349 | 29 | 12.0:1 | 17% (60) |
| 1990-91 | 274 | 21 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (431 to 416); teachers up 8% (29.2 to 31.5).
About SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL
SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle school based in SEWARD, Nebraska. Its 416 students are spread across grades 5 through 8.
SEWARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which runs SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL, has 3 schools and 1,485 students.
Most students at SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL are White: 90% of enrollment. Other students are 7% Hispanic. By the diversity index, SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 18%.
With 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL was 13.2:1. Among middle schools in Nebraska, the typical ratio is 14.5:1. SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 19%. That is close to the 22% average for public schools in Seward County.
allk12 grades SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with Nebraska public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is 4.7 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 74.5% actual, 69.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Nebraska.
County data help place the school in context: in Seward County, median household income is about $82,444, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is among the 8 public schools in Seward County.
The closest public school, SEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 0.4 miles from SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL. Around the school, 2 other public schools are within five miles. SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL places 3rd of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
For locale, NCES codes SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL as Town: Distant.
In 2020-21, SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolled 418; in 2024-25, 416. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 13.2:1, from 14.4:1.
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Seward County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
17,641
Census ACS
Median income
$82,444
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
8
2,809 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SEWARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- SEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 558 students
- SEWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 511 students
Other schools in SEWARD
- SEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 558 students
- SEWARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 511 students
Other Seward Middle schools
One other US public school is named Seward Middle. SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Seward Middle SchoolSeward, AK · 104 students
Nearby schools
- SEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 558
- SEWARD HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 511
- MILFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL10.7 mi · 430
- MILFORD HIGH SCHOOL10.9 mi · 379
- ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT DWIGHT11.3 mi · 52
- MALCOLM JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL11.4 mi · 302
Frequently asked questions
About SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 416 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 90% White, 7% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SEWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by SEWARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS in Seward County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.