BEATTIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BEATTIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in LINCOLN, Nebraska, run under LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, instructs 333 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 272.

LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 42,301 students. BEATTIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BEATTIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 4% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BEATTIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.4%.

In the broader community, census data for Lancaster County shows median household earnings sit near $74,793, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. BEATTIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 97 public schools in Lancaster County (combined enrollment of about 48,123 students).

IRVING MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BEATTIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. BEATTIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 333). White enrollment moved from 82% to 74% across the same window.

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