WAVERLY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Located at 14621 HEYWOOD ST, in WAVERLY, Nebraska, WAVERLY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school that hosts 330 students (grades 3 through 5), operated by WAVERLY SCHOOL DISTRICT 145. Compared to the state average of about 272 students per school, that is 21% bigger than typical.

Within WAVERLY SCHOOL DISTRICT 145, which oversees 5 schools and 2,110 students, WAVERLY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, WAVERLY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL lists that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 18% White. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting WAVERLY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lancaster County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, WAVERLY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.2%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lancaster County put median household income runs about $74,793, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Lancaster County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,123 students), WAVERLY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

EVELYN HAMLOW ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WAVERLY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 64.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 338 students in 2018 compared to 330 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 2% to 79% over that span.

On this page, members of the WAVERLY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.