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Enrollment
429
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARK COUNTY·NCES 320006000085
Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School
900 Cottage Grove Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89119 · (702) 799-5660 · Clark County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL429 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of Nevada public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Nevada public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 18.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
429 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 85%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 27 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School→Orr William E Middle School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Clark County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
21.7%
NV avg 45.8% . -8.5pp since 2023
Math
20.6%
NV avg 35.6% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nevada schools, those numbers are about 46 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.7% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 30.2% | 22.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Nevada SBAC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School
Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School's state test result (23.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School this school | 429 | 100.0% | 23.8% |
| McMillan James B Elementary School Las Vegas | 460 | 100.0% | 29.4% |
| Whitney Elementary School Las Vegas | 410 | 100.0% | 27.1% |
| Hancock Doris Elementary School Las Vegas | 420 | 100.0% | 26.3% |
| Tartan John Elementary School N Las Vegas | 498 | 100.0% | 24.1% |
| Bruner Lucile Elementary School N Las Vegas | 514 | 100.0% | 24.8% |
Matched among Nevada elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Clark County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.8% | #300 of 367 | #205 of 250 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #340 of 388 ▼ 50 | #226 of 258 ▼ 34 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #366 of 390 ▼ 94 | #244 of 259 ▼ 61 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 429 | #279 of 442 | #221 of 276 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #143 of 379 | #115 of 261 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #154 of 381 | #141 of 262 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #63 of 386 | #58 of 260 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.3% | #186 of 304 | #130 of 201 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
429
-30 (-7%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 921
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 429 | 27 | 15.9:1 | 100% (429) |
| 2023-24 | 383 | 28 | 13.7:1 | 100% (383) |
| 2022-23 | 476 | 32 | 14.9:1 | 100% (476) |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 26 | 17.6:1 | 100% (459) |
| 2017-18 | 519 | 34 | 15.3:1 | 100% (519) |
| 2015-16 | 570 | 34 | 16.8:1 | 92% (524) |
| 2010-11 | 558 | 31 | 18.0:1 | 92% (516) |
| 2000-01 | 905 | 51 | 17.8:1 | 42% (384) |
| 1990-91 | 921 | 35 | 26.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School.
About Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School
Students in Las Vegas, Nevada, attend Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 429 students, from pre-K through 5.
Clark County includes 375 schools. Together they enroll 301,622 students.
At Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 50%. It is also 31% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% White, and 5% Asian. For comparison, the population of Clark County is roughly 32% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 15.9:1 comes from the school's 27 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 18.1:1 average for elementary schools in Nevada. The lunch program counts 100% of students at Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 17% of Nevada public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School is -8.7 points: 23.8% actual, 32.5% predicted.
Clark County has about 2,329,548 residents, and the median household income is $76,472, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. In all, Clark County has 462 public schools and roughly 360,225 students.
The nearest public school is Petersen Dean Elementary School, at about 0.8 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
2024-25 enrollment was 429, a 7% decrease from 459 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher fell from 17.6 to 15.9 over 4 years.
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Clark County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,329,548
Census ACS
Median income
$76,472
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
462
360,225 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clark County
- NV Learning Academy J-SHSHigh · 3,352 students
- Desert Oasis High SchoolHigh · 3,300 students
- Sierra Vista High SchoolHigh · 3,255 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 3,203 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Arbor View High SchoolHigh · 3,069 students
Other schools in Las Vegas
- NV Learning Academy J-SHSHigh · 3,352 students
- Desert Oasis High SchoolHigh · 3,300 students
- Sierra Vista High SchoolHigh · 3,255 students
- Arbor View High SchoolHigh · 3,069 students
- Desert Pines High SchoolHigh · 3,011 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 2,961 students
Nearby schools
- Petersen Dean Elementary School0.8 mi · 702
- Orr William E Middle School1.0 mi · 919
- Rowe Lewis E Elementary School1.1 mi · 614
- Thomas Ruby S Elementary School1.2 mi · 682
- Stewart Helen J1.4 mi · 123
- Ward Gene Elementary School1.5 mi · 599
Frequently asked questions
About Paradise Prof Dev Elementary SchoolHow large is Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School?
Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School enrolls approximately 429 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School serve?
Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School?
Approximately 15.9:1 students per teacher at Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School.
How diverse is Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School?
Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School reports a student body of 7% White, 50% Hispanic, 31% Black, 5% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School?
Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School is overseen by Clark County in Clark County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.