The top reported proficiency rate is 65% in English language arts. The lowest is 18% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Scherkenbach William & Mary Es
Scherkenbach William & Mary Elementary sits in the far western reaches of Las Vegas, within the Clark County School District, serving students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and it draws from a part of the city where home values run above both the Nevada and national benchmarks. The surrounding zip code has seen a modest dip in home values over the past year while rents have crept upward, and the price-to-income ratio for buyers sits above the national level, meaning families shopping for a home here face a steeper affordability picture than in much of the country.
The school's academic results tell a story of solid literacy and math performance alongside a clear soft spot in science. On Nevada's SBAC assessments in the most recent reported year, English language arts proficiency came in well above the halfway mark, and math landed just past that threshold as well. These are strong results for an elementary school where every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a universal measure that signals the school serves a community facing economic pressure across the board. Science proficiency, by contrast, was notably lower, with only a small fraction of tested students reaching proficiency. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly how science instruction is sequenced across the grade bands that feed into the tested fifth-grade cohort.
The student body is moderate in size for an elementary school and reflects a multiracial composition. White students form the largest single group, followed closely by Hispanic students, with Black students and students of two or more races also represented in meaningful proportions. Smaller shares of Asian and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students round out the enrollment. The pre-kindergarten program adds an early-entry option for families in the area. Data on English learners and students with individualized education programs was not reported, so those population sizes remain unknown here.
Several categories a parent might expect to see are absent from the available data. No multi-year trend information was provided, so it is not possible from this profile alone to say whether the current proficiency levels represent improvement, decline, or stability. No course-access, staffing, attendance, or discipline data was included. No programs listing was available, so details about gifted services, extracurriculars, or specialized interventions are not reflected here. No neighbor comparison was provided, which means the school's results cannot be positioned against nearby campuses in this narrative. The Clark County district brief turned up no parent-relevant policy, curriculum, or budget changes of recent record, so there is nothing to relay on that front.
Because this is an elementary school serving only through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate to report, and that absence reflects the grade band rather than any gap in the school's performance. The state science assessment, by contrast, does apply, and the low proficiency there is a real result worth a parent's attention even as the stronger ELA and math figures suggest the school's core literacy and numeracy instruction is landing for a majority of its students.
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