LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL

LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as an average-sized middle school in BELLEVUE, Nebraska, overseen by BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 476 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 9,502 students; LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 14% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 7% Black. By comparison, Sarpy County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.5:1 average. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 67.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sarpy County indicate median household earnings sit near $103,321, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Sarpy County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,055 students), LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LEONARD LAWRENCE ELEM SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. LEWIS & CLARK MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 527 (now 476). White enrollment moved from 75% to 63% across the same window.

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