Summary:
Laughlin, Nevada has two public schools serving grades PK through 12: Bennett William G Elementary School (PK–5, 330 students) and Laughlin J-Senior High School (6–12, 313 students), both in the Clark County district. The area summary lists no middle school, because middle-grade students are housed at the high school, so its results blend middle and high school performance. Both schools report 100% free/reduced lunch, indicating very high economic need.
Comparing the two, Bennett has the stronger attendance story: 24.0% chronic absenteeism in 2025–26, better than the district's 27.0% and the state's 25.5%, while the high school's 28.0% is worse than both. Bennett's 4th-grade math (39.2%) is close to the district (40.8%) and state (43.4%), but reading in grades 3, 4, and 5 is well below both, with gaps of roughly 12 to 18 percentage points. At the high school, bright spots include 2024–25 ACT English for 11th grade at 63.8% (district 48.8%, state 47.6%), science above district levels in both reported years, and 8th-grade reading at 46.5%. Its concerns are sharper: 2025–26 all-grades math was only 11.6% (district 33.8%, state 36.2%), and the 2024–25 graduation rate was 82.3% (district 86.6%, state 85.4%).
Both schools spend over $21,000 per student — $21,088 at Bennett and $22,886 at the high school — and the high school has the higher student-teacher ratio (14.2 vs. 12.6). Recent rankings are modest for both: Bennett was 24th percentile with 1 star in 2025–26, and the high school moved from 3 stars to 2 stars, below Clark County's district-level 4 stars. Because enrollments are small and many test-score values are suppressed (shown as —), some year-to-year changes may reflect small cohorts rather than clear trends.
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