Williams Wendell ES

Williams Wendell ES is a close-knit elementary school in Las Vegas, Nevada, operated by Clark County. The school teaches 339 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% leaner than the state mean of about 480.

Clark County comprises 375 schools with combined enrollment of 301,622 students; Williams Wendell ES is among them.

On demographics, Williams Wendell ES logs that 55% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder is composed of 33% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Williams Wendell ES has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. 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 commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Williams Wendell ES falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.5%; this one comes in at 14.0%, -18.5 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, Clark County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,472, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which Williams Wendell ES is one.

Kelly Matt ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Williams Wendell ES. On composite proficiency, Williams Wendell ES comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 347 students in 2018 compared to 339 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 65% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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