Enrollment
410
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARK COUNTY·NCES 320006000115
Whitney Elementary School
5005 Keenan Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89122 · (702) 799-7790 · Clark County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL410 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of Nevada public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
13.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 18.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
410 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 85%
Community
0
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 | 58 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 5% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
66%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Whitney Elementary School→Cortney Francis H Junior High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Clark County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
27.7%
NV avg 45.8% . -3.5pp since 2023
Math
28.6%
NV avg 35.6% . +7.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.7% | 28.6% |
| 2023-24 | 31.2% | 20.8% |
% 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
27.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% 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 Whitney Elementary School
Whitney Elementary School's state test result (27.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitney Elementary School this school | 410 | 100.0% | 27.1% |
| McMillan James B Elementary School Las Vegas | 460 | 100.0% | 29.4% |
| Paradise Prof Dev Elementary School Las Vegas | 429 | 100.0% | 23.8% |
| Tartan John Elementary School N Las Vegas | 498 | 100.0% | 24.1% |
| Wilhelm Elizabeth Elementary School N Las Vegas | 440 | 100.0% | 32.2% |
| Hancock Doris Elementary School Las Vegas | 420 | 100.0% | 26.3% |
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 Whitney Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Clark County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #263 of 367 | #184 of 250 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #262 of 388 ▲ 46 | #179 of 258 ▲ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.7% | #327 of 390 ▼ 60 | #217 of 259 ▼ 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #293 of 442 | #228 of 276 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #19 of 379 | #17 of 261 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.0% | #141 of 381 | #131 of 262 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #81 of 386 | #76 of 260 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.1% | #176 of 304 | #121 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
410
-18 (-4%) vs 2020
+247% since 1990-91, when it was 118
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 17.8:1
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 | 410 | 31 | 13.2:1 | 100% (410) |
| 2023-24 | 379 | 28 | 13.5:1 | 100% (379) |
| 2022-23 | 396 | 31 | 12.8:1 | 100% (396) |
| 2020-21 | 428 | 24 | 17.8:1 | 100% (428) |
| 2017-18 | 507 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 100% (507) |
| 2015-16 | 534 | 37 | 14.4:1 | 92% (492) |
| 2010-11 | 582 | 37 | 15.7:1 | 87% (504) |
| 2000-01 | 799 | 40 | 20.0:1 | 50% (401) |
| 1990-91 | 118 | 5 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whitney Elementary School.
About Whitney Elementary School
The public elementary school Whitney Elementary School is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school's 410 students are in pre-K through 5.
Besides Whitney Elementary School, Clark County runs 374 other schools. The district enrolls 301,622 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Whitney Elementary School is Hispanic (48%). Other students are 31% Black, 8% White, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That is higher than the 32% Hispanic share among all Clark County residents. By the diversity index, Whitney Elementary School comes in at 66%.
At Whitney Elementary School, 31 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.2:1. That ratio is under the 18.1:1 average for elementary schools in Nevada. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 100% of enrollment.
The allk12 Grade for Whitney Elementary School is C. Compared with Nevada public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 28% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Whitney Elementary School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 27.1% is 5.5 points below the 32.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
According to the American Community Survey, in Clark County, median household income is about $76,472, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 462 public schools operate in Clark County, serving about 360,225 students.
Nearby, Bailey Sister Robert Joseph Elementary School is about 0.6 miles away. Whitney Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 28.3% on proficiency, and Whitney Elementary School is below that at 27.1%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 428 to 410. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 13.2:1, from 17.8:1.
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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
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Other Whitney Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 7 states are named Whitney Elementary. Whitney Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 7.
- Whitney Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 559 students
- WHITNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBOISE, ID · 469 students
- Whitney ElementaryYakima, WA · 433 students
- Whitney Elementary SchoolStrongsville, OH · 426 students
- Whitney Elementary SchoolWHITNEY, TX · 387 students
Nearby schools
- Bailey Sister Robert Joseph Elementary School0.6 mi · 572
- Cortney Francis H Junior High School0.9 mi · 1,014
- Cunningham Cynthia Elementary School1.0 mi · 601
- Sports Leadership and Management Academy1.3 mi · 1,898
- Cowan Sunset Southeast High School1.3 mi · 29
- Cowan Academic Center J-SHS1.3 mi · 98
Frequently asked questions
About Whitney Elementary SchoolHow large is Whitney Elementary School?
Whitney Elementary School enrolls approximately 410 students in grades PK-05.
Is Whitney Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Whitney Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Whitney Elementary School have?
Whitney Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Whitney Elementary School?
Student demographics at Whitney Elementary School are roughly 8% White, 48% Hispanic, 31% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Whitney Elementary School public or private?
Whitney Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clark County.
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