SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL

Set in SUTTON, Nebraska, SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL is a tight-knit high school, part of SUTTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. It educates 174 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% below the state mean of about 391.

Within SUTTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 2 schools and 399 students, SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 78%; the rest breaks down as 21% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.6:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Clay County's rate of about 39%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.1%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Clay County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,986 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Clay County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,566 students), of which SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SUTTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 67.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUTTON SECONDARY SCHOOL has declined 10%, going from 194 students in 2018 to 174 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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