The top reported proficiency rate is 51% in English language arts. The lowest is 18% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Wright William V Es
Wright William V Elementary School sits in the southern reaches of Las Vegas, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as part of the Clark County School District. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and its enrollment places it in the mid-range for a southern Nevada elementary campus. The student body is ethnically mixed, with Hispanic students forming the largest single group, followed by white, black, Asian, and multiracial students, along with smaller Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native populations. Every student in the building qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which means the school operates as a fully Title I-eligible community campus serving families across a wide economic spectrum but concentrated on the lower-income end.
On state assessments, Wright William V posts solid results in English language arts and math. In ELA, a slim majority of tested students in grades three through five reached proficiency on the SBAC, and in math just under half cleared that bar. Both results sit in a respectable range for a school with this demographic profile and suggest that core literacy instruction is doing its job. Math is a step behind ELA but still within a range that indicates most students are getting meaningful access to grade-level content. Participation was strong across all tested subjects, which gives these results credibility as a picture of the whole school rather than a partial sample.
Science is the clear soft spot. Only a small fraction of fifth graders demonstrated proficiency on the state science assessment. This is a single-grade result, so it reflects one cohort's performance rather than a building-wide trend, but the gap between science and the other two subjects is wide enough that a parent may want to look into this further with the school. It could reflect anything from staffing transitions to curriculum pacing to the challenges of fitting hands-on science into a heavily literacy-focused schedule. The data does not tell us which.
Several things parents might want to know are simply not in the available data. The school's IEP rate and English learner rate were not reported, so there is no way to characterize the size of those populations or the services they receive. No staffing figures, attendance rates, discipline data, or course access information were provided. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is impossible to say whether these proficiency results represent improvement, decline, or stability. There is no programs listing, so whether the school offers anything beyond the standard Clark County elementary curriculum, such as before- and after-school care, arts enrichment, or specialized interventions, is not something this data can confirm. We looked for recent Clark County School District policy or curriculum changes that would matter to families, but the search returned county government material rather than school district content, so that section is effectively blank here.
The housing market around the school tells a practical story for families considering the area. Home values in the school's zip code sit above both the Nevada and national benchmarks, and the price-to-income ratio is on the higher side, meaning buying a home here takes a larger bite of a typical household income than in many parts of the country. Rents are more manageable relative to income, and the rental market has been essentially flat to slightly softening. Both home values and rents have edged down modestly over the past year, which could reflect broader Las Vegas cooling rather than anything specific to this neighborhood. For a family weighing a move, renting near the school is the more affordable path into the attendance zone, while buying requires a higher income or a larger down payment than in much of the country.
What this school appears to offer is a straightforward, traditional public elementary education in a diverse, working-class Las Vegas neighborhood, with literacy and math instruction that is getting most students to or near proficiency and a science program that has not yet found its footing. Families looking for specialized programs, magnet themes, or extensive enrichment would need to look elsewhere or confirm directly with the school, because none of that shows up in the available data. The strongest signal here is that ELA outcomes are the school's anchor, and the weakest is science, which is worth asking about before enrolling.
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