The top reported proficiency rate is 54% in English language arts. The lowest is 25% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Walker J Marlan Int'l School Es
Walker J Marlan Int'l School ES sits in the 89002 zip code of Henderson, Nevada's second-largest city and a core piece of the Las Vegas Valley metro. Henderson is primarily residential, organized around master-planned communities like Cadence and Inspirada that define how neighborhoods feel and function. The city grew rapidly over the past two decades through that planned-community model, and it continues to draw advanced industries, with publicly reported employers spanning logistics, financial services, media production, and data-center operations. The built environment is sprawling and car-dependent, connected by highways rather than walkable street grids, though the city maintains an extensive trail system and many parks for recreation.
The school itself is a regular public elementary campus serving prekindergarten through fifth grade, part of the Clark County School District. Its enrollment sits at a moderate size for an elementary in this area. The student body skews toward families in economic need: every enrolled student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The racial and ethnic mix is led by a white plurality, with a large Hispanic contingent and smaller Black, multiracial, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian populations. Data on individualized education plans and English learner status was not available, so those dimensions of the student profile remain unclear.
On state assessments for the most recent reported year, Walker J Marlan posted a respectable showing in English language arts, with a solid majority of tested students reaching proficiency. Math results were a touch lower but still landed close to the midpoint, with nearly half of tested students proficient. Science, which is assessed only at fifth grade in this grade band, was the clear soft spot, with only about a quarter of tested students reaching proficiency. Participation was strong across all three subjects. A parent considering this school may want to look into science instruction further, particularly how the school supports fifth-grade students in that subject. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is hard to say whether these results represent improvement, decline, or stability.
Henderson's housing market shapes the context families face when settling near the school. Typical home values in this zip code run above the Nevada state benchmark and well above the national figure, putting ownership somewhat out of easy reach for many households given current mortgage rates. The price-to-income ratio sits above the national midpoint. Renting is the more affordable path locally, with typical rents consuming a manageable share of area income and coming in below the estimated monthly cost of owning. Home values in the zip code have dipped modestly over the past year, while rents have edged upward.
Beyond academics, several pieces a parent might want were absent from the available data. The school's Title I status, any magnet designation, staffing figures, discipline records, course or program offerings, and attendance patterns were all missing. Nothing in the data points to a reason for those gaps beyond what is typical for elementary-level reporting, where many program and outcomes measures simply do not apply or are not published at the campus level. We searched for recent parent-relevant changes in the Clark County School District but found little grounded material, so that thread is left out rather than guessed at.
What the picture does show is an elementary school serving a working-community population in a growing, suburban Henderson setting, with decent literacy results, adequate math results, and a science outcome that warrants attention. Families drawn to Henderson's master-planned residential character and its mix of industries will find here a standard public elementary pathway, not a specialized one, anchored in a district whose recent policy directions the public record does not clearly illuminate.
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