Griffith E W ES

Griffith E W ES is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Las Vegas, Nevada, one of the schools within Clark County, with 608 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% larger than the state mean of about 480.

Within Clark County, which oversees 375 schools and 301,622 students, Griffith E W ES is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Griffith E W ES records that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 7% White, 7% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Griffith E W 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 23.2%, a residual of -9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate median household income runs about $76,472, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Griffith E W ES is one of 462 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thrive Point Academy, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Griffith E W ES. On composite proficiency, Griffith E W ES comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 574 students in 2018 compared to 608 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 72% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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