Summary:
ZIP code 89169 in Las Vegas is home to three PK–5 elementary schools — Petersen Dean Elementary School, Thomas Ruby S Elementary School, and Lake Robert E Elementary School — all part of the Clark County district and serving about 2,066 students combined. Every school reports 100% free/reduced lunch, so this is an area with very high economic need. Science test scores are suppressed by the state for all three schools, meaning they are unknown rather than low; no school-level science comparison is possible.
Compared with each other, Lake Robert E is the relative bright spot: it has the highest all-grade math (24.2%) and reading (32.0%), the best statewide rank (317 of 376, 16th percentile), the lowest chronic absenteeism (29.7%), and the strongest 5th-grade reading score (44.1%). Thomas Ruby S shows the brightest grade-level results, with the top 3rd-grade math (35.5%) and 3rd-grade reading (39.4%) in the ZIP code, but also the highest absenteeism (48.9%) and very low 4th-grade scores (10.4% math, 17.5% reading). Petersen Dean is improving fastest — all-grade math rose from 15.7% to 20.5% and reading from 20.3% to 24.9% — but still has the lowest all-grade reading (24.9%) and the lowest 5th-grade math (11.9%).
Two patterns hold across all three schools: every one is below the district (33.8% math, 43.3% reading) and the state in all-grade proficiency, and every one has chronic absenteeism above the district’s 27.0% and the state’s 25.5%. Per-student spending ranges from $14,076 at Petersen Dean to $16,525 at Lake Robert E, but spending and student/teacher ratios do not line up neatly with results, so no conclusions about cause can be drawn. Rank trends are moving in the right direction — Petersen Dean from the 1st to 5th percentile, Thomas Ruby S from 0 to 10th, Lake Robert E from 6th to 16th — though all three remain near the bottom of Nevada’s rankings.
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