Summary:
ZIP code 89108, in the Las Vegas area, has 10 schools — nine elementary schools (one of them a K–8 charter) and one middle school, with no high schools — enrolling 6,566 students, nearly all in high-poverty Clark County schools where 100% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Two schools clearly outperform the rest. Somerset Academy Lone Mountain, a K–8 charter in State Sponsored Charter Schools, leads with math 53.5, reading 66.2 and science 41.3 — all well above state levels — ranks 63 of 376 schools (83rd percentile, 4 stars), and has the ZIP code's lowest chronic absenteeism at 9.4%. Tobler R E Elementary School is the strongest traditional Clark County elementary, at math 44.7 and reading 54.2, a 65th-percentile rank, and second-lowest absenteeism at 10.3%. The gap between them and the rest is wide: Somerset's reading proficiency is 43.8 points above the lowest school in the area.
The remaining schools generally fall below district and state averages. Brinley J Harold Middle School, the only middle school, has math 12.5 and reading 25.5 with 27.7% chronic absenteeism; Bunker Berkeley L Elementary School ranks in the 3rd percentile, and Reed Doris M Elementary School has the area's highest absenteeism at 38.7%. Ronzone Bertha Elementary School and Culley Paul E Elementary School also sit near the bottom. Absenteeism tracks closely with results, while spending and student-teacher ratios do not: Somerset has the lowest per-student spending ($7,937) and highest ratio (29.1) yet the best outcomes. Many elementary science scores are suppressed by the state — those are unknown, not zero.
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