WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL

WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier junior high in WAVERLY, Nebraska, overseen by WAVERLY SCHOOL DISTRICT 145. Current enrollment sits at 512 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 25% bigger than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 411 students.

WAVERLY SCHOOL DISTRICT 145 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,110 students; WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). Other groups include 19% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Nebraska public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 69.9%; WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 58.5%, -11.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Lancaster County put the typical household earns roughly $74,793 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 97 public schools in Lancaster County (combined enrollment of about 48,123 students).

Nearest neighbor: WAVERLY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 66.5%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WAVERLY MIDDLE SCHOOL has edged up 7%, going from 480 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 2% to 80% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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