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Enrollment
784
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARK COUNTY·NCES 320006000916
Barber Shirley A Elementary School
2002 Dave Street, Las Vegas, NV 89183 · (702) 799-5915 · Clark County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL784 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of Nevada public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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 Nevada public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 18.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
784 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 85%
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 | 65 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 102 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 126 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 132 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 139 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (139).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70% · 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
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
56.4%
NV avg 45.8% . +6.1pp since 2023
Math
48.5%
NV avg 35.6% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nevada schools, those numbers are about 46 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.4% | 48.5% |
| 2023-24 | 50.3% | 45.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Nevada SBAC. 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
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Nevada 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 Nevada'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 Barber Shirley A Elementary School
Barber Shirley A Elementary School's state test result (38.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barber Shirley A Elementary School this school | 784 | 100.0% | 38.7% |
| Imagine School Mountain View Las Vegas | 695 | 100.0% | 35.5% |
| Stevens Josh Elementary School Henderson | 819 | 100.0% | 44.2% |
| Triggs Vincent L Elementary School N Las Vegas | 798 | 100.0% | 37.9% |
| Goynes Theron H & Naomi D Elementary School N Las Vegas | 675 | 100.0% | 41.0% |
| McCaw Gordon Elementary School Henderson | 730 | 100.0% | 68.3% |
Matched among Nevada 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 Barber Shirley A Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Clark County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.7% | #133 of 367 | #91 of 250 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #113 of 388 ▲ 3 | #76 of 258 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.4% | #100 of 390 ▲ 21 | #73 of 259 ▲ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 784 | #35 of 442 | #33 of 276 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #188 of 379 | #143 of 261 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.2% | #41 of 381 | #41 of 262 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #239 of 386 | #234 of 260 |
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
784
+68 (+9%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 784 | 47 | 16.7:1 | 100% (784) |
| 2023-24 | 779 | 44 | 17.7:1 | 100% (779) |
| 2022-23 | 777 | 42 | 18.5:1 | 100% (777) |
| 2020-21 | 716 | 59 | 12.1:1 | 100% (716) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Barber Shirley A Elementary School.
About Barber Shirley A Elementary School
Barber Shirley A Elementary School is the name of a large elementary school in Las Vegas, Nevada. It reported 784 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Nevada have about 480 students on average; enrollment here is 63% higher.
Federal data list 375 schools in Clark County, with 301,622 students enrolled.
About 41% of students at Barber Shirley A Elementary School are Hispanic, the largest single group. The rest of enrollment is 18% Black, 14% White, 14% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Among all residents of Clark County, the Hispanic share is about 32%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 75%.
Barber Shirley A Elementary School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.7:1. The school's 16.7:1 compares with an average of 18.1:1 for elementary schools in Nevada. The school has 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Nevada public elementary schools, Barber Shirley A Elementary School outscored 65%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 32.5% for Barber Shirley A Elementary School. The school posts 38.7%, 6.2 points above the prediction.
In the surrounding county, Clark County, the median household earns about $76,472 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Clark County has 462 public schools with about 360,225 students, including Barber Shirley A Elementary School.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Pinecrest Academy of Nevada St Rose, is about 0.7 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Barber Shirley A Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Barber Shirley A Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 68 students, from 716 to 784. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.7:1) than in 2020-21 (12.1:1).
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.
Clark County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,329,548
Census ACS
Median income
$76,472
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
462
360,225 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clark County
- NV Learning Academy J-SHSHigh · 3,352 students
- Desert Oasis High SchoolHigh · 3,300 students
- Sierra Vista High SchoolHigh · 3,255 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 3,203 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Arbor View High SchoolHigh · 3,069 students
Other schools in Las Vegas
- NV Learning Academy J-SHSHigh · 3,352 students
- Desert Oasis High SchoolHigh · 3,300 students
- Sierra Vista High SchoolHigh · 3,255 students
- Arbor View High SchoolHigh · 3,069 students
- Desert Pines High SchoolHigh · 3,011 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 2,961 students
Nearby schools
- Pinecrest Academy of Nevada St Rose0.7 mi · 1,029
- Gehring Roger D Academy of Science & Technology Elementary School1.0 mi · 648
- Wolff Elise L Elementary School1.0 mi · 751
- Silvestri Charles Junior High School1.0 mi · 1,076
- Coronado High School1.1 mi · 3,147
- Cartwright Roberta C Elementary School1.1 mi · 541
Frequently asked questions
About Barber Shirley A Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Barber Shirley A Elementary School?
Barber Shirley A Elementary School enrolls approximately 784 students in grades PK-05.
Is Barber Shirley A Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Barber Shirley A Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Barber Shirley A Elementary School?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Barber Shirley A Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Barber Shirley A Elementary School?
At Barber Shirley A Elementary School, the student body is approximately 14% White, 41% Hispanic, 18% Black, 6% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Barber Shirley A Elementary School public or private?
Barber Shirley A Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clark County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.