The top reported proficiency rate is 52% in English language arts. The lowest is 23% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Treem Harriet Es
Treem Harriet ES is a regular public elementary school in Henderson, Nevada, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. It sits on Patrick Lane in the heart of a city that has grown into Nevada's second-largest, a residential landscape of master-planned communities stretching across the Las Vegas Valley. The school operates within the Clark County School District, the sprawling system that educates most of the region's children.
The student body is sizable for an elementary campus, with enrollment spread across all six grade levels plus pre-kindergarten. Every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school firmly in the category of high-poverty-serving campuses. The demographic mix is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial Black population and smaller groups of Asian, white, multiracial, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaska Native students. This is a diverse enrollment in a city that publicly reports drawing more advanced industries and more degree-holding residents per capita than the broader region, though the school itself serves a community where universal economic need is the norm.
On state assessments, Treem Harriet's results are mixed. In English language arts, just over half of tested students in grades three through eight reached proficiency on the SBAC, which is a solid showing for a school with this demographic profile and participation was near full. Math proficiency landed just below half, again with strong participation. Science results were the soft spot: only a small fraction of tested fifth-graders reached proficiency. A parent looking at these numbers may want to ask the school what science instruction and lab or hands-on exposure look like in the upper grades, since that is where the gap is most visible. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is hard to say whether these results represent improvement, decline, or stability.
Henderson itself is a car-dependent suburban city built around communities like Green Valley, Anthem, Inspirada, and Cadence, connected by highways to Las Vegas. The campus sits in a zip code where home values run below the Nevada state benchmark and modestly above the national one, with values having declined slightly over the past year. Rents are affordable relative to local incomes, and the monthly cost of renting runs below the cost of carrying a mortgage at current rates. For families considering a move near the school, housing is relatively accessible by regional standards, though the broader Las Vegas market has seen softening prices recently.
The city's employment base ranges from city government and logistics to healthcare, financial services, and data center operations, with Google maintaining a large campus in Henderson and the Las Vegas Raiders and Aces both headquartered there. Publicly reported information describes Henderson as attracting higher rates of bachelor's and master's degree-holding residents than the surrounding area, and the city has identified logistics, manufacturing, financial services, media production, and back-office management as primary industries for policy support.
Beyond the assessment numbers, much of what would help a parent round out the picture is missing from the available data. The school's Title I status was not reported, though the universal free-or-reduced-price lunch rate strongly suggests eligibility. Information on individualized education programs, English learner services, discipline practices, staffing ratios, attendance, and course or program offerings was not available. We searched for recent Clark County School District policy, curriculum, or budget changes that would matter to families, but the research returned little of relevance, so we left that out rather than guess.
What the data does show is a large, diverse, high-poverty elementary school producing middling literacy and math results and a notably weak science outcome, set in a growing suburban city with relatively accessible housing and a diversifying economy. Families drawn to Henderson's residential character and proximity to Las Vegas will find here a campus serving a community where economic need is pervasive, and where asking direct questions about science instruction, support services, and enrichment could be especially worthwhile.
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