Carl Kay ES

Carl Kay ES is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in Las Vegas, Nevada, part of Clark County, works with 630 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 480 students each, so Carl Kay ES sits 31% larger than that benchmark.

Clark County runs 375 schools in total, collectively educating 301,622 students. Carl Kay ES is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carl Kay ES logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 26% White, 21% Black, 13% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Clark County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carl Kay ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the broader community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which Carl Kay ES is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lied STEM Academy MS, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carl Kay ES at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carl Kay ES has contracted 20%, going from 784 students in 2018 to 630 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 34% to 26% over that span.

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