The top reported proficiency rate is 63% in English language arts. The lowest is 14% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Bilbray James Es
Bilbray James Elementary sits in the far northwest reaches of Las Vegas, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Clark County School District. It is not a charter or magnet school. The enrollment is sizable for an elementary campus, and every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which means the school operates with a universally economically disadvantaged population. The student body is majority white, with a large Hispanic contingent and smaller groups of Black, multiracial, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. The school reports no data on English learners or students with individualized education programs, so a parent wanting to understand special-population services would need to ask the school directly.
On state assessments, the most recent results tell a generally encouraging story in the core subjects of math and English language arts. In both, a majority of tested students reached proficiency on the SBAC, with ELA running somewhat ahead of math. For a campus where the entire enrollment qualifies for subsidized meals, those proficiency levels stand above what families might expect and suggest the school is doing meaningful academic work with its population. Participation was near universal across all tested subjects.
Science results tell a different story. Only a small slice of tested students reached proficiency, well below the math and ELA figures. This likely reflects the reality that science is tested only at certain grade levels in elementary school, so the tested group is small and a single year's result can swing on a handful of students. Even so, the gap between science and the other subjects is wide enough that a parent may want to look into this further with the school, asking how science instruction is structured across the earlier grades and what supports are in place.
No trend data was available, so there is no way to say from the provided information whether these results are improving, holding steady, or slipping. Average scale scores were also missing from the dataset.
The surrounding zip code carries home values above both the Nevada and national benchmarks, though those values have been softening slightly on a year-over-year basis. Rents have been moving in the other direction, rising modestly. For a family weighing the cost of living, the estimated monthly mortgage on a typical home in this zip code runs higher than a typical rent payment, meaning renting is currently the cheaper path to living in the attendance zone. The broader economic backdrop includes a moderate national unemployment rate and a thirty-year mortgage rate that has been hovering in the mid-six-percent range, which keeps purchase costs elevated relative to recent years.
We looked for the district's recent parent-relevant changes, such as curriculum shifts, policy moves, or tax and bond decisions, but the search returned little that speaks to those topics, so there is nothing to pass along on that front. No locale brief was provided for the immediate neighborhood, so this account cannot speak to nearby amenities, parks, or community character beyond what the housing data implies. No neighbor comparison set was available either, which means Bilbray James cannot be positioned against nearby schools using the provided data. Program offerings, staffing levels, attendance figures, and discipline data were all absent, and Title I status was not reported, though the universal free-or-reduced-lunch rate strongly suggests the school receives federal support for low-income students.
What the data does show is an elementary school with solid reading and math outcomes relative to its demographics, a science result that deserves a closer look, and a housing market in its attendance zone that has cooled somewhat for buyers while rents continue to climb. A family considering this school would want to supplement this picture with a conversation about science instruction, special-population services, and the day-to-day school environment, none of which the available data captures.
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