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Park John S ES
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Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Park John S ES
Set in Las Vegas, Nevada, Park John S ES is a mid-tier elementary campus, one of the schools within Clark County. It educates 551 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 375 schools in Clark County (301,622 students total), Park John S ES accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Park John S ES logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 17% Black, 8% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Park John S ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Park John S ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.5%.
Around the school, census data for Clark County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,472 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which Park John S ES is one.
Central Technical Training Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Park John S ES. On composite proficiency, Park John S ES comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Park John S ES has shrank 31%, going from 799 students in 2018 to 551 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.
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