Summary:
Zip code 89135 in Las Vegas, NV has two elementary schools, both serving PK–5 in Clark County School District: Goolsby Judy & John L Elementary School (707 students) and Ober D'Vorre & Hal Elementary School (536 students). The district ranks 5th of 12 in Nevada, at the 58th percentile with 4 stars. The two schools share the same zip code, district, grade span, and 2024–25 free/reduced lunch rate of 100%, but their outcomes are sharply different.
Goolsby Judy & John L Elementary School is the standout: it ranked 13 of 376, 97th percentile, 5 stars in 2025–26; 11 of 379 in 2024–25; and 13 of 377 in 2023–24, all 5 stars. Its 2025–26 all-grades proficiency was 71.3% in math, 76.5% in reading, and 47.8% in science, far above district and state. Chronic absenteeism was 15.7%, below district 27.0% and state 25.5%. Ober D'Vorre & Hal Elementary School is mixed and improving: 2025–26 rank 189 of 376, 50th percentile, 3 stars, up from 244 of 379, 36th percentile, 2 stars in 2024–25. Its 2025–26 all-grades math was 38.5% and reading 45.3%, near district and state, but science is suppressed for 2025–26 at all-grades and 5th-grade levels, so it is unknown, not zero. The second school’s chronic absenteeism was 34.7%, above district and state.
Grade-level results show why the gap matters. Goolsby Judy & John L Elementary School reached 86.3% proficient in 5th-grade reading, 33.6 points above the state. Ober D'Vorre & Hal Elementary School looked stronger in 5th grade (44.1% math, 64.7% reading) but weak in 3rd grade (40.0% math, 31.7% reading), below district and state. Per-student spending was $14,328 at the second school and $12,264 at the first, while the student-teacher ratio was 14.4 and 17.2. In 2024–25, all-grades science at the second school was 14.8%, below district 25.0% and state 27.2%. Overall, 89135 has one exceptional school and one typical, recently improving school, with a 19.0-percentage-point absenteeism gap between them.
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