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What's something Williams Tom ES does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
538
Elementary
DISTRICT 547 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARK COUNTY·NCES 320006000104
Williams Tom Elementary School
3000 E Tonopah Ave, N Las Vegas, NV 89030 · (702) 799-7179 · Clark County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL538 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Nevada public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
16.3:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 18.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
538 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 | 59 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
17%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
Williams Tom Elementary School→Smith J D Middle 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
26.6%
NV avg 45.8% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
19.6%
NV avg 35.6% . +4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 27 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 up about 5 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.6% | 19.6% |
| 2023-24 | 27.4% | 14.9% |
% 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
22.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 Williams Tom Elementary School
Williams Tom Elementary School's state test result (22.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Tom Elementary School this school | 538 | 100.0% | 22.1% |
| Herron Fay Elementary School N Las Vegas | 575 | 100.0% | 33.5% |
| Jeffers Jay W Elementary School Las Vegas | 504 | 100.0% | 19.8% |
| Ronnow C C Elementary School Las Vegas | 503 | 100.0% | 25.5% |
| Crestwood Elementary School Las Vegas | 551 | 100.0% | 33.2% |
| Lincoln Elementary School N Las Vegas | 606 | 100.0% | 22.0% |
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 Williams Tom Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Clark County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.1% | #317 of 367 | #215 of 250 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #349 of 388 ▲ 11 | #231 of 258 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #334 of 390 ▼ 26 | #223 of 259 ▼ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 538 | #171 of 442 | #156 of 276 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #170 of 379 | #133 of 261 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.8% | #380 of 381 | #262 of 262 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #74 of 386 | #69 of 260 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.8% | #17 of 304 | #8 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
538
-127 (-19%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 660
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 538 | 33 | 16.3:1 | 100% (538) |
| 2023-24 | 601 | 31 | 19.4:1 | 100% (601) |
| 2022-23 | 635 | 35 | 18.1:1 | 100% (635) |
| 2020-21 | 665 | 50 | 13.3:1 | 100% (665) |
| 2017-18 | 925 | 55 | 16.8:1 | 100% (925) |
| 2015-16 | 988 | 55 | 18.0:1 | 91% (899) |
| 2010-11 | 856 | 55 | 15.6:1 | 100% (853) |
| 2000-01 | 995 | 52 | 19.1:1 | 59% (587) |
| 1990-91 | 660 | 33 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Williams Tom Elementary School.
About Williams Tom Elementary School
Among the schools in N Las Vegas, Nevada, is Williams Tom Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The school had 538 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Enrollment across the 375 schools in Clark County totals 301,622 students.
The large majority of students at Williams Tom Elementary School, 91%, are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 4% White and 2% Black. Clark County's residents are about 32% Hispanic, 59 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Williams Tom Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 17%.
Williams Tom Elementary School operates with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 16.3:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Nevada average 18.1:1. About 100% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits.
The allk12 Grade for Williams Tom Elementary School is D. Compared with Nevada public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 13% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with Williams Tom Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Nevada is predicted to score 32.5%. Williams Tom Elementary School scores 22.1%, 10.4 points below that line.
Census estimates describe Clark County this way: median household income is about $76,472, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Clark County number 462 and enroll about 360,225.
The next-closest public school is Herron Fay Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Williams Tom Elementary School at 4th of 8.
NCES describes the area around Williams Tom Elementary School as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal counts put enrollment at 665 in 2020-21 and 538 in 2024-25, a 19% decrease. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.3:1.
Community posts for Williams Tom Elementary School can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
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- Arbor View High SchoolHigh · 3,069 students
Other schools in N Las Vegas
- Canyon Springs High SchoolHigh · 2,812 students
- Legacy High SchoolHigh · 2,682 students
- Mojave High SchoolHigh · 2,487 students
- Cheyenne High SchoolHigh · 1,855 students
- Cram Brian & Teri Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,431 students
- Findlay Clifford O Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,333 students
Nearby schools
- Herron Fay Elementary School0.7 mi · 575
- Bracken Walter Elementary School0.8 mi · 482
- Ronnow C C Elementary School0.8 mi · 503
- Jeffers Jay W Elementary School0.8 mi · 504
- Von Tobel Ed Middle School0.9 mi · 866
- Smith J D Middle School0.9 mi · 1,181
Frequently asked questions
About Williams Tom Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Williams Tom Elementary School?
Williams Tom Elementary School enrolls approximately 538 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Williams Tom Elementary School serve?
Williams Tom Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Williams Tom Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Williams Tom Elementary School is approximately 16.3:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Williams Tom Elementary School?
At Williams Tom Elementary School, the student body is approximately 4% White, 91% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Williams Tom Elementary School in?
Williams Tom Elementary School is part of Clark County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.