The top reported proficiency rate is 78% in English language arts. The lowest is 46% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Goolsby Judy & John L Es
Goolsby Judy & John L Elementary sits on West Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Clark County School District. The enrollment is sizable for an elementary, with students spread fairly evenly across the early grades and a pre-kindergarten program feeding in at the base. The student body leans majority white, with a meaningful Hispanic presence, a solid Asian contingent, and a group of multiracial students rounding out the picture. A smaller share of students are Black, and a very small number are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. Every student in the building qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school fully in the category of high-poverty serving. This is a plain characteristic of the school's identity and shapes the kinds of federal support and programming it can access.
On state assessments, Goolsby posts strong results in the core subjects. In math, roughly three-quarters of tested students reached proficiency on the SBAC, and in English language arts the proficient share ran even higher. Both figures sit well above what you would expect in a school where every student comes from an economically disadvantaged household. Participation was near-universal across the tested grades. Science results told a different story, with fewer than half of tested fifth graders reaching proficiency. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly whether science instruction is getting the same depth of attention as math and reading in the earlier grades.
The state data did not include individualized education program counts or English learner rates, so those slices of the population are invisible here. This kind of gap can reflect reporting choices at the district level rather than an absence of those students, but the data simply does not say one way or the other. We looked for trend information to see whether performance has been moving up or down over time, but the source did not provide comparable prior-year results, so there is no clear directional read.
No information was available on program offerings, course access, staffing ratios, attendance patterns, discipline data, or Title I status. The school sits within the Clark County School District, which is among the largest districts in the country, but the district brief turned up no recent policy, curriculum, or funding changes with lasting parent impact. Publicly reported material on the district focused on county geography and governance rather than classroom-level shifts.
The surrounding zip code carries a relatively expensive housing market. Home values run well above the state and national benchmarks, and the estimated monthly mortgage on a typical home exceeds the typical rent by a meaningful margin. Rent itself remains closer to the national mood, and the rent-to-income ratio sits in a manageable range for the area. Mortgage rates have hovered in the mid-sixes recently, and the national unemployment rate has held steady in the low fours. For a family considering the area, buying into this neighborhood requires a strong income, while renting is comparatively more accessible. No community or locale narrative was provided, so there is little to say about neighborhood character, amenities, or commute patterns beyond what the housing data implies.
Put together, Goolsby presents as a large elementary school with genuinely strong academic outcomes in math and reading, serving an entirely economically disadvantaged student population in a relatively affluent corner of Las Vegas. The science results are the clearest soft spot. Families drawn to strong literacy and math instruction in a diverse, high-poverty setting may find a fit here. Those wanting to understand special education services, English learner support, or enrichment programming should ask the school directly, because the available data is silent on all three.
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