Bellevue Elementary School

Bellevue Elementary School operates as a mid-tier elementary-level community in Bellevue, Iowa, run under Bellevue Comm School District. Current enrollment sits at 405 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 325 students.

Within Bellevue Comm School District, which oversees 2 schools and 759 students, Bellevue Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Bellevue Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Bellevue Elementary School shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jackson County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bellevue Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.6%, the actual is 80.8%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Jackson County put median household earnings sit near $74,186, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Jackson County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,628 students), of which Bellevue Elementary School is one.

Bellevue High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bellevue Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 60.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Bellevue Elementary School's enrollment has grew 22% since 2018, when it stood at 333 (now 405). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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