BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 1212 FAIRFAX DR, in BELLEVUE, Nebraska, BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary school that caters to 360 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.

BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 9,502 students; BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Black. By comparison, Sarpy County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. The state averages around 21.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. 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, BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.8%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of -5.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sarpy County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,321 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Sarpy County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,055 students), BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LOGAN FONTENELLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 362 (now 360). Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

On allk12, members of the BIRCHCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.