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What's one thing WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
451
Elementary
DISTRICT 370 · STATE 272
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PAPILLION LA VISTA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 317527000846
WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY
720 FENWICK ST, PAPILLION, NE 68046 · (402) 898-9630 · Sarpy County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL451 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Nebraska public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Nebraska public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 21.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
88 students
DISTRICT 18% · STATE 37%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 27% larger than its 6th grade class (56).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 57% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NSCAS 2024-25 . % On Track + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
68.3%
NE avg 57.6%
Math
71.8%
NE avg 60.6%
What this means: On the NSCAS, Nebraska's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nebraska schools, those numbers are about 58 and 61.
Source: NSCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.6%
based on NE schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Nebraska schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Nebraska's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY
WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY's state test result (66.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY this school | 451 | 19.5% | 66.3% |
| TWO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLEVUE | 364 | 20.3% | 62.1% |
| BELLEVUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLEVUE | 475 | 20.0% | 72.8% |
| PATRIOT ELEMENTARY PAPILLION | 361 | 16.1% | 66.4% |
| FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLEVUE | 486 | 14.6% | 66.5% |
| ANDERSON GROVE ELEMENTARY SCH BELLEVUE | 317 | 19.2% | 65.8% |
Matched among Nebraska elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nebraska | In Sarpy County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #139 of 311 | #19 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #114 of 398 | #10 of 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.3% | #110 of 438 | #14 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 451 | #87 of 587 | #12 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #192 of 379 | #16 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.7% | #160 of 379 | #21 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.5% | #286 of 359 | #19 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +19.0% | #35 of 135 | #3 of 10 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
451
+57 (+14%) vs 2020
+44% since 2000-01, when it was 314
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 17.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 451 | 31.6 | 14.3:1 | 20% (88) |
| 2023-24 | 419 | 28.7 | 14.6:1 | 19% (81) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 29 | 14.9:1 | 18% (79) |
| 2020-21 | 394 | 23 | 17.1:1 | 16% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 379 | 24.2 | 15.7:1 | 16% (59) |
| 2015-16 | 393 | 24 | 16.4:1 | 22% (88) |
| 2010-11 | 441 | 27 | 16.3:1 | 21% (93) |
| 2000-01 | 314 | 21 | 14.9:1 | 15% (46) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 19% (379 to 451); teachers up 31% (24.2 to 31.6).
About WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY
WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY sits in PAPILLION, Nebraska, and is classified as an elementary school. Federal data show 451 students enrolled in pre-K through 6 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 272 students for elementary schools in Nebraska.
PAPILLION LA VISTA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS serves 12,069 students across 22 schools.
More than half of enrollment at WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY is White: 69%. The next largest groups are 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 6% Black. The school's White share is 11 points below the 79% share among Sarpy County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 50%.
WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY has 31.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.3:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Nebraska is 21.0:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 20% at WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY.
Among Nebraska public elementary schools, WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY outscored 54%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY are 3.3 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (66.3% actual, 69.6% predicted).
In the surrounding county, Sarpy County, median household income comes to about $103,321, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. The county has 76 public schools and about 34,055 students.
Of the public schools around it, WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY is closest to TRUMBLE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY's average proficiency of 66.3% compares with 67.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 14%, from 394 to 451. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 14.3:1, from 17.1:1.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Sarpy County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
197,389
Census ACS
Median income
$103,321
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
34,055 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PAPILLION LA VISTA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
- PAPILLION LA VISTA SOUTH HSHigh · 2,038 students
- PAPILLION LA VISTA SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,867 students
- LA VISTA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 719 students
- PAPILLION MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 635 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 522 students
- PRAIRIE QUEEN ELEMENTARYElementary · 514 students
Other schools in PAPILLION
- PAPILLION LA VISTA SOUTH HSHigh · 2,038 students
- PAPILLION LA VISTA SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,867 students
- PAPILLION MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 635 students
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 522 students
- PRAIRIE QUEEN ELEMENTARYElementary · 514 students
- BELL ELEMENTARYElementary · 488 students
Other Walnut Creek Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Walnut Creek Elementary. WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY is the 5th largest of the 7.
- Walnut Creek ElementaryMcDonough, GA · 712 students
- Walnut Creek ElementaryRaleigh, NC · 574 students
- Walnut Creek ElementaryGalena, OH · 546 students
- Walnut Creek Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 496 students
- Walnut Creek Elementary SchoolAZLE, TX · 389 students
Nearby schools
- TRUMBLE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 364
- CARRIAGE HILL ELEMENTARY SCH0.8 mi · 386
- ESU 3 HEAD START - SCCDC0.9 mi · 27
- PATRIOT ELEMENTARY1.2 mi · 361
- PAPILLION MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 635
- BELL ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 488
Frequently asked questions
About WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARYHow many students attend WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY?
WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 451 students in grades PK-06.
Is WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY is approximately 14.3:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY are roughly 69% White, 13% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY in?
WALNUT CREEK ELEMENTARY is part of PAPILLION LA VISTA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.