Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 6
Shell Creek Elementary School, Columbus, NE
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 373
- Teachers (FTE)
- 27.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.8
- Grades
- PK to 6
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 14.4. The Nebraska average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 16786 280th St, Columbus, NE 68601
- Phone
- (402)564-8008
- District
- Lakeview Community Schools
- County
- Platte County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 310011200492
School meals
- Free lunch
- 74
- Reduced-price lunch
- 25
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 9926.5% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Lakeview Community Schools
- Platte Center Elementary School 168 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Columbus
- Centennial Elementary School Columbus Public Schools
- Lost Creek Elementary Sch Columbus Public Schools
- North Park Elementary Columbus Public Schools
- Emerson Elementary School Columbus Public Schools
- West Park Elementary Columbus Public Schools
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.