PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an expansive elementary school in PLATTSMOUTH, Nebraska, one of the schools within PLATTSMOUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, instructs 460 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 69% bigger than the state mean of about 272.

Across the 4 schools in PLATTSMOUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (1,479 students total), PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.

Looking at school resources, PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cass County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 62.7%; this one comes in at 53.4%, -9.3 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cass County put the typical household earns roughly $91,836 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Cass County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,932 students), PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PLATTSMOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 62.8%.

PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. PLATTSMOUTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 503 (now 460). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 90% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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