The top reported proficiency rate is 39% in English language arts. The lowest is 6% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Bendorf Patricia a Es
Bendorf Patricia A ES is a regular public elementary school in the Clark County School District, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade on Las Vegas's west side near South Kevin Way. It operates as a neighborhood school, not a charter and not a magnet, drawing from the surrounding residential streets in a part of the Las Vegas metro area where single-family homes dominate and where the housing market has softened recently.
The school's enrollment is moderate for an elementary campus serving this grade band. Its student body reflects the racial and ethnic diversity that characterizes much of the Las Vegas valley. Hispanic students form the largest group, followed by Black students, then White students, with smaller Asian and multiracial populations and a handful of Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and American Indian or Alaska Native students. Every student in the building qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Bendorf among the schools serving a uniformly high-poverty population. The data did not include information on students with individualized education programs or English learners, so a parent looking for details on those services would want to ask the school directly.
On state assessments, Bendorf's results tell a mixed story. In English language arts, the proficiency rate sits below where most parents would want it but within a range that shows a meaningful portion of students are meeting grade-level expectations. Math proficiency is lower still, with fewer than a third of tested students reaching the proficient bar. Science results are quite low, with only a small handful of students demonstrating proficiency, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand how science instruction is structured and what supports are in place. Participation rates across all three subjects were strong, so the results reflect nearly the full tested population rather than a partial sample. The data did not include average scale scores, and no multi-year trend information was available, so it is not possible from this data to say whether performance is improving, declining, or holding steady. Average scale scores were not reported.
The surrounding community context offers some practical signals for families. Home values in the school's zip code run below the Nevada statewide benchmark and have declined modestly over the past year, while rents have ticked up slightly. Estimated monthly mortgage costs in the area exceed typical rents, which means renting near the school is currently less expensive month to month than buying. The rent-to-income ratio sits in a range that most households would find manageable relative to national norms. Unemployment, measured nationally, has held steady at a low level. No locale brief was provided for this specific area, so we cannot speak to nearby amenities, transit access, or neighborhood character beyond what the housing and economic data suggest.
The Clark County School District is the parent district, and we searched for recent district-level changes that would matter to parents, such as policy shifts, curriculum updates, referendums, or tax changes. The search did not return anything focused on school district operations, so there is nothing to report on that front. We looked for a comparison set positioning Bendorf against neighboring schools or districts, but none was provided, so we cannot place its academic results in a local peer context from the available data. Civil rights data, program offerings, staffing levels, attendance figures, discipline data, and course access information were all absent from what was provided.
For a family considering Bendorf, the picture is one of a diverse, high-poverty elementary school where reading outcomes outpace math and science, where participation in testing is solid, and where the surrounding neighborhood offers relatively affordable housing in a metro area that has seen some recent softening in home prices. The gaps in the data, particularly around special populations, trend direction, and peer comparison, mean that a visit to the school and a conversation with its leadership would fill in important pieces that this profile cannot.
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