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SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (98).
Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedWhat this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 71% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 9 points, placing it in Nebraska's top 10%.
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SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (79.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 447 | 16.6% | 79.6% |
| ARBOR VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ELKHORN | 555 | 9.7% | 75.5% |
| CARL A SWANSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OMAHA | 283 | 22.3% | 71.6% |
| ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LINCOLN | 767 | 22.7% | 78.3% |
| WOODBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ELKHORN | 641 | 7.5% | 81.3% |
| MANCHESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OMAHA | 444 | 7.7% | 81.7% |
Where SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nebraska | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.6% | #14 of 311 | #12 of 55 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #26 of 398 | #16 of 96 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.1% | #19 of 438 | #15 of 109 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 447 | #92 of 587 | #40 of 125 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #118 of 379 | #21 of 117 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.8% | #123 of 379 | #63 of 117 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.6% | #309 of 359 | #36 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.9% | #83 of 135 | #25 of 41 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 447 | 33.9 | 13.2:1 | 17% (74) |
| 2023-24 | 442 | 36.8 | 12.0:1 | 21% (94) |
| 2022-23 | 479 | 37.3 | 12.8:1 | 22% (106) |
| 2020-21 | 490 | 34 | 14.4:1 | 22% (110) |
| 2017-18 | 422 | 27.3 | 15.4:1 | 18% (75) |
| 2015-16 | 344 | 26 | 13.2:1 | 15% (50) |
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (422 to 447); teachers up 24% (27.3 to 33.9).
About SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large elementary school in OMAHA, Nebraska. It educates 447 students in pre-K through 5. The typical figure for elementary schools in Nebraska is about 272 students.
SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls under ELKHORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which has 20 schools enrolling 11,653 students.
White students are the majority at SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 65% of enrollment. It is also 14% Asian, 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, and 4% Black. That is close to the 69% White share among all Douglas County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 54% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates with 33.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 13.2:1. On average, elementary schools in Nebraska have 21.0:1, compared with 13.2:1 here. SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 17% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests, 79.6%, is 9.0 points above the 70.6% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of Nebraska schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Douglas County show that the median household income is $80,391, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Besides SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Douglas County has 206 other public schools.
The closest other public school is ELKHORN GRANDVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 79.0% on proficiency, and SAGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is above that at 79.6%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 9% enrollment decrease, from 490 in 2020-21 to 447 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 14.4 in 2020-21 to 13.2 in 2024-25.
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Douglas County at a glance
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