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Wolff Elise L ES
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Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nevada schools, those numbers are about 46 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Nevada schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in Nevada's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Wolff Elise L ES
Wolff Elise L ES operates as a heavily attended K-5 school in Henderson, Nevada, run under Clark County. Current enrollment sits at 751 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 480 students per school, that is 56% larger than typical.
Wolff Elise L ES is one of 375 schools operated by Clark County, a district that educates 301,622 students overall.
Demographically, Wolff Elise L ES logs that the most-represented group is White (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 14% Asian, 8% Black. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 44% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Wolff Elise L ES shows 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting Wolff Elise L ES tighter than the state norm the norm. 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.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wolff Elise L ES is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 58.7%, a residual of +26.2 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate median household income runs about $76,472, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Wolff Elise L ES is one.
Coronado HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wolff Elise L ES comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 892 students in 2018 compared to 751 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 51% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.
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