The top reported proficiency rate is 74% in English language arts. The lowest is 39% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Lamping Frank Es
Lamping Frank Elementary sits in Henderson, Nevada's second-largest city and a core piece of the Las Vegas Valley metro area. The school is a regular public campus serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, part of the Clark County School District. Henderson is a sprawling, car-dependent suburban city built around master-planned communities such as Green Valley, Anthem, and Inspirada, with major employers spanning logistics, financial services, healthcare, and technology. Publicly reported data places Google's data center operations among the city's recent commercial anchors, and the Las Vegas Raiders maintain their headquarters here. The surrounding zip code carries home values well above both the Nevada and national benchmarks, with rents that sit modestly below the estimated monthly mortgage cost at current rates. For families weighing the area, that gap between renting and owning is worth noting in a market where prices have eased slightly year over year but remain elevated relative to broader state and national levels.
Academically, Lamping Frank stands out in the two core tested subjects. On the most recent state SBAC assessments, covering grades three through eight, the school posted proficiency rates that are genuinely strong in both math and English language arts. The ELA result was especially high, and the math result was solidly above what many elementary campuses achieve. Participation was near-universal across all tested subjects. These are the kind of numbers that suggest the school's instructional core in literacy and numeracy is working well for a large portion of its students. Science, by contrast, was markedly weaker. The proficiency rate in science was well below the math and ELA figures, landing at a level where a parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand how science instruction is structured across the grade levels that feed into the tested grade.
The school serves a total enrollment that is sizable for an elementary campus, with students spread fairly evenly across the grade bands from pre-kindergarten through fifth. Every student at the school qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which is the full student body. The racial and ethnic composition is mixed, with a white plurality, a large Hispanic contingent, and smaller groups of Asian, multiracial, Black, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. This is a diverse campus in a suburban setting. Data on the share of students with individualized education programs and the share designated as English learners was not available in the materials we received, so those pieces of the student-support picture remain uncovered.
Several categories that would help round out a parent's understanding were absent. The locale classification, discipline records, course-access details, staffing figures, and attendance rates were all missing from the available data. No multi-year academic trend was provided, so it is not possible to say whether these strong results represent a steady pattern or a recent shift. We searched for recent Clark County School District policy or program changes that might affect families and found little that met that bar, so we left that section out rather than speculate. No neighbor comparison data was available to position Lamping Frank against nearby schools, and no specialized program offerings were listed.
What the data does show is a large, diverse elementary school where reading and math outcomes are a clear strength and where the entire student body comes from economically qualifying households. The science result is the soft spot a family would want to probe. For a parent looking at schools in the Henderson area, Lamping Frank presents a campus with demonstrated academic results in the core subjects, situated in an affluent suburban housing market, within a district whose recent changes remain unclear from the available record.
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