Bellevue High School

As a modestly sized secondary school in Bellevue, Iowa, Bellevue High School works with 354 students from grades 6 through 12, overseen by Bellevue Comm School District. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Bellevue Comm School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 759 students; Bellevue High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bellevue High School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Jackson County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Bellevue High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 81.2%; actual is 67.5%, a gap of -13.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $74,186, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jackson County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,628 students), Bellevue High School is one campus in the mix.

Bellevue Elementary 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 High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 354 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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