Bellevue Elementary School

Bellevue Elementary School is an elementary school of compact scale in BELLEVUE, Michigan, part of Bellevue Community Schools, teacheing 226 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Michigan's public schools average about 369 students each, so Bellevue Elementary School sits 39% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Bellevue Community Schools, which oversees 2 schools and 507 students, Bellevue Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bellevue Elementary School lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Bellevue Elementary School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Eaton County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bellevue Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.6%; this one comes in at 27.0%, -13.6 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, Eaton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,597 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bellevue Elementary School is one of 47 public schools in Eaton County (combined enrollment of about 17,025 students).

Bellevue JrSr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Bellevue Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 33%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 226 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

On this page, the feed for Bellevue Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.