WISNER-PILGER HIGH SCHOOL

WISNER-PILGER HIGH SCHOOL operates as a compact senior high in WISNER, Nebraska, run under WISNER-PILGER PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 190 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 391 students each, so WISNER-PILGER HIGH SCHOOL sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in WISNER-PILGER PUBLIC SCHOOLS (496 students total), WISNER-PILGER HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, WISNER-PILGER HIGH SCHOOL logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, WISNER-PILGER HIGH SCHOOL shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.6:1 average. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WISNER-PILGER HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of Nebraska schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 61.3%; actual is 71.7%, +10.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Cuming County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,104 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. WISNER-PILGER HIGH SCHOOL is one of 7 public schools in Cuming County (combined enrollment of about 1,520 students).

The closest other public school is WISNER-PILGER ELEM SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WISNER-PILGER HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 72.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 189 students in 2018 compared to 190 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 90% to 82% over that span.

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