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Smith Hal ES · Las Vegas, NV
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Nevada SBAC, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient.
English Language Arts
16.5%
State avg 45.8%
District avg 44.0%
County avg 47.1%
+1.3pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
9.2%
State avg 35.6%
District avg 33.1%
County avg 36.2%
+0.8pp since 2023-24
Science
N/A
State avg 32.5%
District avg 31.3%
County avg 33.4%

What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NV schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
12.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.2pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% typical for Nevada schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade ALL16.5%45.8%3159.2%35.6%313N/A32.5%N/A

2-year history

All grades, all students. Smith Hal ES   Nevada avg

English Language Arts

41152023-2446172024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2516.5%44.0%47.1%45.8%
SY 2023-2415.2%39.4%42.3%41.4%

Mathematics

3382023-243692024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-259.2%33.1%36.2%35.6%
SY 2023-248.4%30.2%33.1%32.8%

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How to read these scores

What is Nevada SBAC?
Nevada SBAC is the statewide standardized test administered by Nevada public schools.
What does "% Proficient" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 16.5% mean for English Language Arts at Smith Hal ES?
It means about 16.5 percent of students tested at Smith Hal ES performed at grade level or above on the Nevada SBAC English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Nevada that year was 45.8%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Nevada, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Nevada Department of Education / Nevada Report Card. Smarter Balanced (ELA + Math grades 3-8) and Nevada CRT Science (grades 5, 8). School-level data via the Nevada Report Card public API. Headline metric is the cumulative "% Proficient" rate (Meets + Exceeds Standard, top 2 of 4 SBAC levels).
How often is it updated?
Nevada SBAC is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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