Bennett William G Elementary School

Bennett William G Elementary School is a small PK–5 school in Laughlin, NV, serving 330 students as part of the Clark County school district, where 100% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in each of the last three years. Laughlin is a remote desert community, and no other schools are located within 20 miles, so the closest benchmarks available are the district and Nevada state averages. In 2025–2026 the school ranked 285th of 376 Nevada schools, at the 24th percentile with 1 star — noticeably lower than the district's own standing of 58th percentile with 4 stars. That contrast suggests the district's overall results do not reflect what is happening at this individual school.

The brightest news is attendance. Chronic absenteeism fell from 54.3% in 2021–2022 to 24.0% in 2025–2026, now 3.0 points below the district and 1.5 points below the state. Academics have also improved: all-grade math proficiency rose from 17.5% in 2022–2023 to 32.2% in 2025–2026, close to the district's 33.8% and 4.0 points below the state. Reading improved from the low 20s to 30.8%, though it slipped slightly from 32.0% the year before.

Reading remains the clearest gap: 30.8% at Bennett versus 43.3% in the district and 45.2% statewide, a difference that holds in grades 3, 4, and 5. Per-student spending has risen about 65.5% since 2020–2021, reaching $21,088 in 2023–2024. Science results and 3rd and 5th grade math were suppressed by the state, so those should be treated as unknown rather than as failure. Historical 2017–2018 subgroup rankings were low across nearly every group measured, including low-income students, but those figures are dated and current equity gaps cannot be determined from this data.