WAYNE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WAYNE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the very small intermediate schools in WAYNE, Nebraska, run under WAYNE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, with 148 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 64% below the state mean of about 411.

WAYNE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,016 students. WAYNE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, WAYNE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports that 77% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 18% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, WAYNE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.5%.

In the area at large, census data for Wayne County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,215 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Wayne County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,837 students), WAYNE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WAYNE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 62.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WAYNE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has fell 5%, going from 155 students in 2018 to 148 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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