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Jeffers Jay W ES
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Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 20% 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 Jeffers Jay W ES
Jeffers Jay W ES operates as a moderately sized primary school in Las Vegas, Nevada, overseen by Clark County. Current enrollment sits at 504 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Clark County comprises 375 schools with combined enrollment of 301,622 students; Jeffers Jay W ES is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Jeffers Jay W ES shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). The remainder looks like 6% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jeffers Jay 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 19.8%, a residual of -12.7 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Clark County) logs that 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), Jeffers Jay W ES is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Von Tobel Ed MS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jeffers Jay W ES. On composite proficiency, Jeffers Jay W ES comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Five-year trend. Jeffers Jay W ES's enrollment has edged down 36% since 2018, when it stood at 793 (now 504). Class-load math has loosened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Clark County at a glance
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