The top reported proficiency rate is 46% in English language arts. The lowest is 22% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Perkins Ute Es
Perkins Ute Elementary sits on Patriots Way in Moapa, a sparsely populated rural community in the Moapa Valley of northeastern Clark County, roughly an hour's drive northeast of Las Vegas along Interstate 15. The school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade and operates as a regular public school within the Clark County School District. It is a small school for its grade band, with enrollment spread fairly evenly across the early grades, and its student body reflects the surrounding valley: a mix of white and Hispanic students, with a meaningful Native American presence tied to the nearby Moapa River Indian Reservation of the Moapa Band of Paiutes. Every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which tells you this is a community where economic need is the baseline, not an exception.
On state assessments, Perkins Ute's results tell a mixed story. In English language arts, nearly half of tested students reached proficiency, a solid result for a school of this size and demographic. Math proficiency landed a notch below that, with roughly two-fifths of tested students meeting the bar. Science was the soft spot, with a smaller share of fifth graders reaching proficiency, though only a small group was tested at that grade level, which makes single-year results less stable. Participation was strong across all subjects. Average scale scores were not available in the data provided, and no multi-year trend was reported, so it is hard to say whether these numbers represent improvement, decline, or a steady state. A parent looking at the science result in particular may want to ask the school how it supports hands-on science instruction in the upper elementary grades.
Because Perkins Ute serves only pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate, no AP or career-pathway data, and no college-readiness measure to report. Those simply do not apply to a school at this level. The same goes for civil-rights outcomes and course-access data, which were not provided. We also did not find staffing, attendance, or discipline figures, so questions about class sizes, teacher experience, or student climate would need to go directly to the school or the district. The data on special populations was incomplete: IEP and English-learner counts were not reported in the source material.
The community itself shapes what this school is. Moapa has no conventional downtown or walkable commercial core. The built environment is large-lot residential properties, agricultural acreage along the Muddy River, utility infrastructure, and open desert. Daily life is car-dependent. The area's employment anchors are energy facilities, including the Reid Gardner battery storage site and the Moapa Solar Project, along with tribal government operations and agriculture. Many residents likely commute south to the Las Vegas Valley for work. Civic life centers on a public library branch, the Warm Springs Natural Area, the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge, and the tribal reservation's government and community services.
The town's population has been stable to slightly declining, and the major development story in the area is energy infrastructure conversion rather than housing growth. No new residential developments were identified. This means the school's enrollment is unlikely to be driven by rapid growth, and the community around it remains rural and tight-knit. We looked for recent Clark County School District policy or curriculum changes that would affect families here but found little in the available material, so we left it out rather than guess.
No neighbor comparison or housing data was provided for this school, so we cannot place its academic results against nearby schools or characterize local home values and rents. That information would help a family weigh the tradeoffs of living in Moapa versus closer to the Las Vegas metro. What the available picture does show is a small, rural elementary school serving a high-need community, with respectable literacy results, a workable math outcome, and a science result worth asking about.
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