- MIDDLE SCHOOL Click Here to ENTER Middle School LINKS Hastings Middle School 505 North Hastings Avenue Formally Hastings Junior High, Hastings Middle School sits on the northern edge of the downtown area.The school changed its nickname to the Panthers in 1950, decades before it became fashionable of junior high/middle school's to have different nicknames than their high schools. The building ...www1.hastings.esu9.k12.ne.us/middle.htm