PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a sizable elementary school in BELLEVUE, Nebraska, one of the schools within BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, serves 466 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 71% larger than the state mean of about 272.

Within BELLEVUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which oversees 20 schools and 9,502 students, PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 61%; the rest is composed of 18% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 7% Black. By comparison, Sarpy County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sarpy County (around 23%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.6%; this one delivers 56.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sarpy County) shows that median household income runs about $103,321, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 76 public schools in Sarpy County (combined enrollment of about 34,055 students).

ESU 3 HEAD START - PETER SARPY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.2%.

PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. PETER SARPY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 418 (now 466). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 11% to 18%.

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