BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in BELLEVUE, Nebraska, part of BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 328 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 21% bigger than the state mean of about 272.

BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 20 schools operated by BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that instructs 9,502 students overall.

On the student-mix side, BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 37% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sarpy County runs at roughly 23%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sarpy County indicate median household income runs about $103,321, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Sarpy County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,055 students), BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ESU 3 HEAD START - BELLEAIRE, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. BELLEAIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 295 (now 328). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 27% to 37%.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.