ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL

ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intermediate school of tight-knit scale in ALLIANCE, Nebraska, part of ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, educateing 261 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 36% smaller than the typical public school in Nebraska, which averages around 411 students.

ALLIANCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,310 students. ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 60% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 30% Hispanic, 5% Native American, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages about 14.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Box Butte County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.1%; this one delivers 49.2%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Box Butte County put median household income runs about $68,892, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Box Butte County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,693 students), of which ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ALLIANCE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.9%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 276 students in 2018 compared to 261 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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