The top reported proficiency rate is 53% in English language arts. The lowest is 19% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Bryan Richard H Es
Bryan Richard H ES sits in the northwest reaches of Las Vegas, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Clark County School District. It is a neighborhood elementary school, not a charter and not a magnet, which means families looking for specialized themes or lottery-based enrollment will not find that here. What they will find is a community school drawing from the surrounding residential streets, with an enrollment that falls in the moderate range for a Las Vegas-area elementary campus.
The student body is diverse in a way that reflects the broader character of the Las Vegas valley. Hispanic students make up the largest single group, followed by white students, with smaller but present populations of black, multiracial, Asian, 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 marks this as a school where economic need is universal rather than concentrated in a subset of families. The data does not tell us how many students receive special education services or how many are English learners, so a parent whose child falls into either category would want to ask the school directly about those supports.
On state testing, Bryan Richard H posts results that run in different directions depending on the subject. English language arts is the school's strongest showing, with a slim majority of tested students meeting or exceeding proficiency. That is a solid result for an elementary school serving a universally low-income population, and it suggests that reading and writing instruction is landing for many children. Math sits a notch lower, with close to half of tested students reaching proficiency. Both of these participation rates are strong, meaning the results give a reliable read of the school rather than a thin slice. Science is the soft spot. Proficiency there is low, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school, asking how science instruction is structured across the upper elementary grades and whether hands-on lab time or curriculum sequencing might explain the gap. Because Bryan serves only through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate, no AP data, and no college or career readiness metric to report. Those simply do not apply to a campus serving this age range.
The surrounding ZIP code tells a housing story that is modestly more affordable than the state as a whole, with typical home values sitting below the Nevada benchmark and well below national highs. Rents in the area are moderate. For a family weighing whether to buy or rent near the school, the monthly cost of ownership comes in higher than renting by a meaningful but not dramatic margin, given current mortgage rates. Home values in the area have softened somewhat recently, while rents have held roughly flat. A family relocating to the Bryan attendance zone would find a residential part of Las Vegas where neither buying nor renting is especially stretched relative to regional norms, though neither is it a deep bargain.
We looked for recent district-level changes that might affect families in Clark County School District, such as policy shifts, curriculum updates, or bond measures, but the search did not surface anything specific with lasting parent impact. This is not unusual for a district of this size; publicly available attention often gravitates toward county governance rather than school-level decision making. A parent interested in what is changing at the district level would do well to check the Clark County School District board agenda directly.
Put together, Bryan Richard H ES reads as a straightforward neighborhood elementary with real strengths in literacy, middling results in math, and a clear need for attention in science. Its universal free-lunch status and diverse enrollment make it a school where families of many backgrounds are represented and where economic challenge is the shared context rather than an exception. For parents weighing this campus, the most productive questions center on how the school supports struggling readers and mathematicians, what science instruction looks like day to day, and how the school communicates about progress for children who need extra help. The data here gives a starting picture. The school itself can fill in what the numbers cannot.
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