Lowman Mary & Zel ES

Set in Las Vegas, Nevada, Lowman Mary & Zel ES is a medium-sized primary school, operated by Clark County. It works with 689 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% above the state mean of about 480.

Clark County comprises 375 schools with combined enrollment of 301,622 students; Lowman Mary & Zel ES is among them.

On the student-mix side, Lowman Mary & Zel ES logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

In terms of school funding signals, Lowman Mary & Zel ES reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Lowman Mary & Zel ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Lowman Mary & Zel ES is in the bottom 10% of Nevada public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.5%; Lowman Mary & Zel ES posts 17.4%, -15.1 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Clark County) reports that 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 Lowman Mary & Zel ES is one.

Manch J E ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lowman Mary & Zel ES comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.0%.

Lowman Mary & Zel ES operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 948 students in 2018 compared to 689 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.