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Enrollment
539
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CARSON CITY·NCES 320039000288
Bordewich/Bray Elementary
110 S. Thompson St., Carson City, NV 89703 · (775) 283-2400 · Carson City
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL539 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of Nevada 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.
- BBeats 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
15.8:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 18.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
539 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 | 30 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
43.1%
NV avg 45.8% . +4.6pp since 2023
Math
35.4%
NV avg 35.6% . +9.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.1% | 35.4% |
| 2023-24 | 38.5% | 26.2% |
% 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
35.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% 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 Bordewich/Bray Elementary
Bordewich/Bray Elementary's state test result (35.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordewich/Bray Elementary this school | 539 | 100.0% | 35.8% |
| Sonoma Heights Elementary Winnemucca | 468 | 100.0% | 44.5% |
| Yerington Elementary School Yerington | 465 | 100.0% | 24.3% |
| Manse Elementary School Pahrump | 535 | 100.0% | 25.1% |
| Fremont Elementary Carson City | 553 | 100.0% | 27.9% |
| Virgin Valley Elementary School Mesquite | 621 | 100.0% | 42.6% |
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 Bordewich/Bray Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Carson City |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.8% | #160 of 367 | #4 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #202 of 388 ▲ 55 | #4 of 7 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.1% | #197 of 390 ▲ 5 | #4 of 7 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 539 | #170 of 442 | #2 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #139 of 379 | #2 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.8% | #204 of 381 | #1 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #274 of 386 | #4 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.5% | #226 of 304 | #3 of 7 |
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
539
-1 (0%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 640
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 539 | 34 | 15.8:1 | 100% (539) |
| 2023-24 | 528 | 33 | 16.0:1 | 53% (278) |
| 2022-23 | 578 | 33 | 17.5:1 | 100% (577) |
| 2020-21 | 540 | 41 | 13.2:1 | 59% (317) |
| 2017-18 | 623 | 39 | 16.0:1 | 43% (266) |
| 2015-16 | 611 | 38 | 16.1:1 | 57% (351) |
| 2010-11 | 599 | 37 | 16.2:1 | 60% (358) |
| 2000-01 | 646 | 45 | 14.4:1 | 47% (306) |
| 1990-91 | 640 | 45 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bordewich/Bray Elementary.
About Bordewich/Bray Elementary
Bordewich/Bray Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school, is located in Carson City, Nevada. The school reports 539 students in pre-K through 5.
Carson City has 10 schools and 5,072 students, and Bordewich/Bray Elementary is one of those schools.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Bordewich/Bray Elementary. The largest is Hispanic students, at 46%. Smaller groups are 43% White, 4% multiracial, and 4% Native American. For comparison, the population of Carson City is roughly 26% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 60%, meaning two students picked at random have a 60% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Staffing totals 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.8:1. That is lower than the 18.1:1 average for elementary schools in Nevada. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 100%. The 80% average for public schools in Carson City is 20 points lower.
Measured against Nevada public elementary schools, Bordewich/Bray Elementary receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with Bordewich/Bray Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Nevada is predicted to score 32.5%. Bordewich/Bray Elementary scores 35.8%, 3.3 points above that line.
Bordewich/Bray Elementary is located in Carson City, where the median household income is $72,355, roughly 24% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Bordewich/Bray Elementary is one of 13 public schools in the county.
Early Childhood Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles away. The five-mile area around Bordewich/Bray Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 31.1% on proficiency, and Bordewich/Bray Elementary is above that at 35.8%.
Bordewich/Bray Elementary has an NCES locale of City: Small.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 540 to 539, a small change. Students per teacher rose from 13.2 in 2020-21 to 15.8 in 2024-25.
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Carson City at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
58,384
Census ACS
Median income
$72,355
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
5,072 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Carson City
- Eagle Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 854 students
- Carson Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
- Fremont ElementaryElementary · 553 students
- Al Seeliger ElementaryElementary · 527 students
- Edith W. Fritsch ElementaryElementary · 500 students
- Mark Twain ElementaryElementary · 497 students
Other schools in Carson City
- Eagle Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 854 students
- Carson Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
- Fremont ElementaryElementary · 553 students
- Al Seeliger ElementaryElementary · 527 students
- Edith W. Fritsch ElementaryElementary · 500 students
- Mark Twain ElementaryElementary · 497 students
Nearby schools
- Early Childhood Center0.1 mi · 45
- Carson Middle School0.3 mi · 833
- Edith W. Fritsch Elementary0.9 mi · 500
- Fremont Elementary1.3 mi · 553
- Mark Twain Elementary1.6 mi · 497
- Al Seeliger Elementary1.8 mi · 527
Frequently asked questions
About Bordewich/Bray ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Bordewich/Bray Elementary?
Bordewich/Bray Elementary enrolls approximately 539 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Bordewich/Bray Elementary serve?
Bordewich/Bray Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Bordewich/Bray Elementary have?
Bordewich/Bray Elementary employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bordewich/Bray Elementary?
At Bordewich/Bray Elementary, the student body is approximately 43% White, 46% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Bordewich/Bray Elementary public or private?
Bordewich/Bray Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Carson City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.