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Kearney, Nebraska - 1 schools
50
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District-Level NCES Analysis
West Kearney High School operates 1 public schools serving 50 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Nebraska. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Buffalo County.
a 65:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 47.7% African American, 24.6% White, 18.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is West Kearney High School, enrolling 65 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
West Kearney High School accounts for 100.0% of all West Kearney High School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of West Kearney High School a distant remainder — means West Kearney High School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
West Kearney High School student-counselor ratio is 65:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
West Kearney High School has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 50 students.
What is the demographic composition of West Kearney High School?
West Kearney High School students are 47.7% African American, 24.6% White, 18.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.5% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.