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Bowler Joseph L ES
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Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bowler Joseph L ES
Located at 451 Vincen Leavitt Ave, in Bunkerville, Nevada, Bowler Joseph L ES is a mid-sized K-5 school that educates 465 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Clark County.
Clark County runs 375 schools in total, collectively educating 301,622 students. Bowler Joseph L ES is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Bowler Joseph L ES reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 36% White, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bowler Joseph L ES has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Bowler Joseph L ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bowler Joseph L 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 32.0%.
Across the wider county, Clark County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,472, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Clark County's 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), Bowler Joseph L ES is one campus in the mix.
Hughes Charles Arthur MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.4 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bowler Joseph L ES at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 43.9%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Bowler Joseph L ES's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 494 (now 465). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.
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