Summary:
The Sidney Public Schools district in Nebraska has only one high school, Sidney High School, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school's performance has been inconsistent, with its statewide ranking fluctuating between 135th out of 168 Nebraska high schools in 2023-2024 and 158th out of 215 in 2022-2023. Its SchoolDigger rating has also ranged from 1 star out of 5 to 2 stars out of 5 over the past few years.
Academically, Sidney High School has struggled, with the percentage of 11th-grade students proficient or better in ACT/English Language Arts, ACT/Mathematics, and ACT/Science consistently falling below the state averages. The school's four-year graduation rate of 88.1% is slightly below the state average, and its chronic absenteeism rate of 21.1% is relatively high. These academic challenges may be influenced by the school's higher-than-average percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a larger population of students from low-income families.
Despite the school's higher-than-average per-student spending and lower-than-average student-teacher ratio, these resources do not appear to be translating into consistently strong academic outcomes. The district may need to investigate the effectiveness of its resource utilization and instructional practices to address the school's performance issues and better support the needs of its student population.
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