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Snyder William E ES
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Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 24 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 have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 22% 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 Snyder William E ES
Snyder William E ES operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Las Vegas, Nevada, overseen by Clark County. Current enrollment sits at 686 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% above the state mean of about 480.
Clark County runs 375 schools in total, collectively educating 301,622 students. Snyder William E ES is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Snyder William E ES shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school records 17% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Snyder William E ES has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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), Snyder William E ES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 22.3%, a residual of -10.3 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Clark County shows median household earnings sit near $76,472, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clark County's 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), Snyder William E ES is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Long Walter V ES, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Snyder William E ES ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 21.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Snyder William E ES's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 908 (now 686). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 64% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.
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