Wallin Shirley & Bill ES

Wallin Shirley & Bill ES, an expansive K-5 school in Henderson, Nevada, overseen by Clark County, instructs 735 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 53% bigger than the state mean of about 480.

Clark County runs 375 schools in total, collectively educating 301,622 students. Wallin Shirley & Bill ES is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Wallin Shirley & Bill ES logs that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 25% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 12% Asian, 7% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Wallin Shirley & Bill ES shows 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Wallin Shirley & Bill ES ranks in the top 10% of Nevada public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.5%; Wallin Shirley & Bill ES posts 56.4%, +23.9 points above that line.

In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which Wallin Shirley & Bill ES is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pinecrest Academy of Nevada Inspirada, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wallin Shirley & Bill ES. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wallin Shirley & Bill ES ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.3%.

Wallin Shirley & Bill ES operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wallin Shirley & Bill ES has contracted 26%, going from 991 students in 2018 to 735 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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