The top reported proficiency rate is 46% in English language arts. The lowest is 17% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Toland Helen Anderson Intl Academy
Toland Helen Anderson Intl Academy is a regular public elementary school in Las Vegas, Nevada, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade as part of the Clark County School District. It sits on D Street in the 89106 zip code, an area where home values and rents run below both state and national benchmarks and have been softening over the past year. For a family weighing this school, the housing market around it is relatively accessible by Clark County standards, with rents meaningfully lower than what a monthly mortgage would cost at current rates, and home prices sitting below the Nevada median.
The school is small for its grade band, with an enrollment that spreads fairly evenly across the early grades. Every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school squarely in a high-poverty context. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial Black enrollment and small shares of Asian, white, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and multiracial students. Data on individualized education programs and English learner status was not available, so those dimensions of the student population are a gap a parent may want to ask the school about directly.
On Nevada's state assessments, the most recent results show a mixed academic picture. In math, proficiency among tested students in grades three through eight landed in the mid-forties on a percentage basis, and English language arts results were nearly identical. Those figures suggest roughly half of tested students are meeting grade-level benchmarks in those core subjects, which is a middling outcome. Participation was strong across all tested subjects. Science, which at the elementary level typically reflects fifth-grade performance, showed a much lower proficiency rate, with only a small number of students tested. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly whether the science result reflects a one-year dip or a persistent pattern. Average scale scores were not available for any subject, so it is hard to gauge how close the non-proficient students are to meeting the bar.
The school does not have grade-level or trend data that would allow a clean year-over-year comparison, so there is no way to read direction from the data provided. No multi-year academic trends were returned.
Context about the school's specific programs, course offerings, magnet or charter designations, staffing ratios, discipline data, attendance patterns, or Title I status was either absent or not reported in the data available. The school's name suggests an international focus, but the payload does not describe any particular curricular theme or specialized program, so that read cannot be confirmed from the data on the page. A parent interested in what "International Academy" means in practice would need to go directly to the school or district for that detail.
The Clark County School District brief returned no parent-relevant policy, curriculum, referendum, or tax changes with lasting impact, so there is nothing new at the district level to factor into a decision about this school.
For a family living in or considering this part of Las Vegas, Toland Helen Anderson is a small, high-poverty neighborhood elementary with moderate reading and math outcomes and a science result that lags well behind. The area offers relatively affordable housing by regional standards, and the school's compact size may appeal to families looking for a smaller setting. What the data cannot tell you is anything about the school's culture, its classroom approach, the international theme implied by its name, or the supports in place for students who are not yet proficient. Those are the conversations worth having with the principal and staff before drawing a fuller conclusion.
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