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Enrollment
679
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARK COUNTY·NCES 320006000872
Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School
8951 W Ford Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89148 · (702) 799-1360 · Clark County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL679 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 52% of Nevada public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
16.0:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 18.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
679 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 | 40 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 91 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 132 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
79%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
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
54.0%
NV avg 45.8% . +9.4pp since 2023
Math
38.0%
NV avg 35.6% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.6% | 35.0% |
% 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
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% 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 Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School
Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School's state test result (34.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School this school | 679 | 100.0% | 34.5% |
| Wright William V Elementary School Las Vegas | 562 | 100.0% | 37.1% |
| Batterman Kathy L Elementary School Las Vegas | 635 | 100.0% | 52.4% |
| Berkley Shelley Elementary School Las Vegas | 719 | 100.0% | 46.1% |
| Tanaka Wayne N Elementary School Las Vegas | 728 | 100.0% | 43.3% |
| Abston Sandra B Elementary School Las Vegas | 726 | 100.0% | 37.5% |
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 Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Clark County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #178 of 367 | #123 of 250 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #179 of 388 no change | #123 of 258 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #115 of 390 ▲ 35 | #82 of 259 ▲ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 679 | #75 of 442 | #72 of 276 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #149 of 379 | #118 of 261 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 79.1% | #11 of 381 | #11 of 262 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #231 of 386 | #226 of 260 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.0% | #278 of 304 | #189 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
679
-29 (-4%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 20.8:1
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 | 679 | 42.5 | 16.0:1 | 100% (679) |
| 2023-24 | 693 | 38 | 18.2:1 | 100% (693) |
| 2022-23 | 713 | 36 | 19.8:1 | 100% (713) |
| 2020-21 | 708 | 34 | 20.8:1 | 100% (708) |
| 2017-18 | 715 | 38 | 18.8:1 | 42% (302) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School.
About Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School
Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Clark County, located in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 679 students. That is 41% larger than the average of about 480 students for elementary schools in Nevada.
Clark County has 375 schools; together they serve 301,622 students.
The largest group at Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 30%. Smaller groups are 22% White, 17% Black, 17% multiracial, and 11% Asian. Census estimates put Clark County at about 32% Hispanic, close to the school's figure. The diversity index for Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School is 79%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.0:1. The school has 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 18.1:1 average for elementary schools in Nevada is 2.1 students per teacher. In all, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 52% of Nevada public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School would score about 32.5%. It scores 34.5%, 2.0 points above that figure.
Census data for Clark County show median household income comes to about $76,472, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 462 public schools in the county, enrolling about 360,225, Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School among them.
A public school about 1.2 miles away, Wright William V Elementary School, is the closest to Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment decreased 4% over 4 years, reaching 679 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 20.8:1 in 2020-21 to 16.0:1 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- Wright William V Elementary School1.2 mi · 562
- Forbuss Robert L Elementary School1.2 mi · 641
- Sierra Vista High School1.8 mi · 3,255
- Reedom Carolyn S Elementary School1.8 mi · 499
- Thompson Tyrone Elementary School1.8 mi · 916
- Doral Academy Cactus2.2 mi · 998
Frequently asked questions
About Snyder Don & Dee Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School?
Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School enrolls approximately 679 students in grades PK-05.
Is Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School is approximately 16.0:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School?
At Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School, the student body is approximately 22% White, 30% Hispanic, 17% Black, 11% Asian, 17% Two or more.
Is Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School public or private?
Snyder Don & Dee Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clark County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.