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Barber Shirley A ES
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Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout Barber Shirley A ES
Barber Shirley An ES is one of the well-populated K-5 schools in Las Vegas, Nevada, part of Clark County, with 784 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 63% larger than the state mean of about 480.
Clark County runs 375 schools in total, collectively educating 301,622 students. Barber Shirley An ES is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Barber Shirley An ES records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 18% Black, 14% White, 14% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.
Looking at school resources, Barber Shirley An ES logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting Barber Shirley An ES tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Barber Shirley An ES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 38.7%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate median household income runs about $76,472, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Clark County's 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), Barber Shirley An ES is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Pinecrest Academy of Nevada St Rose, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barber Shirley An ES ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.0%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
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