Sparta, NE schools
Sparta’s public schools score well below Nebraska’s averages: 32% of students are proficient in reading against 48.2% statewide, and 75% of high schoolers graduate on time against 86%. Kids attend Niobrara Elementary School or Verdigre Elementary School through grade 6, then Verdigre High School or Niobrara Secondary School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Sparta’s School Grade: C
The public schools Sparta’s kids attend trail 74% of Nebraska’s districts on state tests.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Nebraska’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Nebraska only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Nebraska with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Sparta kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well above the state in reading
75% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Two districts serve Sparta
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
We don’t have any schools located in Sparta yet.