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Cartwright Roberta C ES
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Cartwright Roberta C ES
Cartwright Roberta C ES is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Las Vegas, Nevada, part of Clark County, with 541 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Within Clark County, which oversees 375 schools and 301,622 students, Cartwright Roberta C ES is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Cartwright Roberta C ES reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 18% White, 13% multiracial, 12% Asian, 11% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting Cartwright Roberta C ES tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cartwright Roberta C ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.2%.
In the broader community, 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), Cartwright Roberta C ES is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Gehring Roger D Acad of Science & Technology ES, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cartwright Roberta C ES comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Cartwright Roberta C ES's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 687 (now 541). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 32% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
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