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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Dondero Harvey N ES administration to hear?
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Enrollment
737
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARK COUNTY·NCES 320006000041
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School
4450 S Ridgeville St, Las Vegas, NV 89103 · (702) 799-5940 · Clark County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL737 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 35% of Nevada public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
17.1:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 18.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
737 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 59 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 100 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 129 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 122 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (134).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School→Guinn Kenny C Middle School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Clark County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
30.8%
NV avg 45.8% . +2.5pp since 2023
Math
32.5%
NV avg 35.6% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.8% | 32.5% |
| 2023-24 | 28.3% | 25.7% |
% 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
29.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% 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 Dondero Harvey N Elementary School
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School's state test result (29.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dondero Harvey N Elementary School this school | 737 | 100.0% | 29.3% |
| Harris George E Elementary School Las Vegas | 630 | 100.0% | 26.4% |
| Vegas Verdes Elementary School Las Vegas | 710 | 100.0% | 27.1% |
| Rowe Lewis E Elementary School Las Vegas | 614 | 100.0% | 33.6% |
| Long Walter V Elementary School Las Vegas | 697 | 100.0% | 20.0% |
| Lake Robert E Elementary School Las Vegas | 682 | 100.0% | 23.3% |
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 Dondero Harvey N Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Clark County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.3% | #241 of 367 | #168 of 250 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #222 of 388 ▲ 41 | #154 of 258 ▲ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #300 of 390 ▼ 6 | #202 of 259 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 737 | #42 of 442 | #40 of 276 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #211 of 379 | #158 of 261 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.7% | #266 of 381 | #188 of 262 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #37 of 386 | #32 of 260 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.7% | #284 of 304 | #192 of 201 |
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
737
-62 (-8%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 798
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 21.6:1
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 | 737 | 43 | 17.1:1 | 100% (737) |
| 2023-24 | 699 | 37 | 18.9:1 | 100% (699) |
| 2022-23 | 763 | 41 | 18.6:1 | 100% (763) |
| 2020-21 | 799 | 37 | 21.6:1 | 100% (799) |
| 2017-18 | 765 | 41 | 18.7:1 | 100% (762) |
| 2015-16 | 767 | 37 | 20.7:1 | 83% (636) |
| 2010-11 | 728 | 36 | 20.2:1 | 67% (487) |
| 2000-01 | 944 | 46 | 20.5:1 | 31% (288) |
| 1990-91 | 798 | 41 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dondero Harvey N Elementary School.
About Dondero Harvey N Elementary School
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Clark County in Las Vegas, Nevada. It reported 737 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 480 students for elementary schools in Nevada.
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School is part of a district of 375 schools: Clark County, with 301,622 students.
Federal enrollment data show Dondero Harvey N Elementary School is 67% Hispanic. Other groups make up 13% Black, 9% White, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Clark County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 53, compared with 70 nationally.
The school's 43 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1. Elementary schools in Nevada average 18.1:1, 1.0 more students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Nevada public elementary schools, Dondero Harvey N Elementary School outscored 35%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Dondero Harvey N Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Nevada schools: 29.3% actual against 32.5% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Clark County, median household income comes to about $76,472, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 462 public schools and about 360,225 students.
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Guinn Kenny C Middle School, about 0.5 miles away. The five-mile area around Dondero Harvey N Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Dondero Harvey N Elementary School at 6th of 8.
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 799 to 737, an 8% decline. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 21.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 17.1:1.
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Clark County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,329,548
Census ACS
Median income
$76,472
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
462
360,225 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- Arbor View High SchoolHigh · 3,069 students
Other schools in Las Vegas
- NV Learning Academy J-SHSHigh · 3,352 students
- Desert Oasis High SchoolHigh · 3,300 students
- Sierra Vista High SchoolHigh · 3,255 students
- Arbor View High SchoolHigh · 3,069 students
- Desert Pines High SchoolHigh · 3,011 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 2,961 students
Nearby schools
- Guinn Kenny C Middle School0.5 mi · 1,069
- Thiriot Joseph E Elementary School0.5 mi · 607
- Decker C H Elementary School0.9 mi · 554
- Earl Marion B Elementary School0.9 mi · 522
- Jydstrup Helen Elementary School1.0 mi · 563
- Diskin P A Elementary School1.1 mi · 505
Frequently asked questions
About Dondero Harvey N Elementary SchoolHow large is Dondero Harvey N Elementary School?
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School enrolls approximately 737 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Dondero Harvey N Elementary School serve?
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dondero Harvey N Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dondero Harvey N Elementary School is approximately 17.1:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Dondero Harvey N Elementary School?
At Dondero Harvey N Elementary School, the student body is approximately 9% White, 67% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Dondero Harvey N Elementary School public or private?
Dondero Harvey N Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clark County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.