Heckethorn Howard E ES

Heckethorn Howard E ES is a substantial primary school in Las Vegas, Nevada, overseen by Clark County. The school instructs 778 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 62% bigger than the state mean of about 480.

Clark County comprises 375 schools with combined enrollment of 301,622 students; Heckethorn Howard E ES is among them.

On demographics, Heckethorn Howard E ES reports that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 32% Hispanic, 13% Black, 12% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Heckethorn Howard E ES reports 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Heckethorn Howard E ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Heckethorn Howard E 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 45.5%, a residual of +13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,472 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which Heckethorn Howard E ES is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ward Kitty McDonough ES, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heckethorn Howard E ES. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Heckethorn Howard E ES at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 43.7%.

Heckethorn Howard E ES operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 14%: 680 students in 2018 compared to 778 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 47% to 37%.

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