Wood River, NE schools
Wood River’s public schools score above Nebraska’s averages: 51% of students are proficient in reading against 48.2% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 86%. Kids attend Wood River Elementary School through grade 5, then Wood River Rural Middle School and Wood River Rural High School.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Wood River’s School Grade: B
The public schools Wood River’s kids attend outperform 63% of Nebraska’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
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 Wood River kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Above the state in reading
95% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
The district serving Wood River
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Wood River
There’s no college in Wood River, but 3 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Central Community College in Grand Island, 13 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Wood River. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
All 1 school in Wood River
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Wood River kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Wood River’s district that are located in Wood River.