SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary campus in COLUMBUS, Nebraska, run under LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, instructs 373 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 37% bigger than the state mean of about 272.

LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY SCHOOLS runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,037 students. SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 23% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Platte County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Platte County (around 50%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.1%; this one delivers 66.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Platte County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,552 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Platte County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,530 students), of which SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is LAKEVIEW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 2.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. SHELL CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 30% since 2018, when it stood at 286 (now 373). White enrollment moved from 71% to 76% across the same window.

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