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Perkins Dr Claude G ES
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% 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 Perkins Dr Claude G ES
Located at 3700 Shadow Tree St, in N Las Vegas, Nevada, Perkins Dr Claude G ES is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that hosts 546 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Clark County.
Clark County comprises 375 schools with combined enrollment of 301,622 students; Perkins Dr Claude G ES is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Perkins Dr Claude G ES records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 32% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting Perkins Dr Claude G ES tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Perkins Dr Claude G ES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Perkins Dr Claude G ES tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.1%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Clark County put the typical household earns roughly $76,472 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Clark County's 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), Perkins Dr Claude G ES is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Wilhelm Elizabeth ES, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Perkins Dr Claude G ES comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Looking at the recent track record. Perkins Dr Claude G ES's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 684 (now 546). Black enrollment moved from 27% to 32% across the same window.
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