Ellis Robert & Sandy ES

Ellis Robert & Sandy ES is a large elementary campus in Henderson, Nevada, operated by Clark County. The school caters to 909 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 480 students each, so Ellis Robert & Sandy ES sits 89% bigger than that benchmark.

Clark County runs 375 schools in total, collectively educating 301,622 students. Ellis Robert & Sandy ES is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Ellis Robert & Sandy ES records that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 9% Asian, 8% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Ellis Robert & Sandy ES shows 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Ellis Robert & Sandy ES qualify 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, Ellis Robert & Sandy ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Clark County shows median household income runs about $76,472, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Clark County's 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), Ellis Robert & Sandy ES is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pinecrest Academy of Nevada Sloan Canyon, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ellis Robert & Sandy ES. On composite proficiency, Ellis Robert & Sandy ES comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

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