ANCHOR POINTE ELEMENTARY

Located at 17007 NORTH HWS CLEVELAND BLVD, in BENNINGTON, Nebraska, ANCHOR POINTE ELEMENTARY is a sizable primary school that works with 544 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so ANCHOR POINTE ELEMENTARY sits 100% above that benchmark.

BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,381 students; ANCHOR POINTE ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ANCHOR POINTE ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 9% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting ANCHOR POINTE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Douglas County's rate of about 25%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ANCHOR POINTE ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 74.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.2%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Douglas County) shows that median household earnings sit near $80,391, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Douglas County runs 207 public schools (combined enrollment of about 98,640 students), of which ANCHOR POINTE ELEMENTARY is one.

PINE CREEK ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ANCHOR POINTE ELEMENTARY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 80.5%.

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