The top reported proficiency rate is 25% in English language arts. The lowest is 3% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Perkins Dr Claude G Es
Perkins Dr Claude G Elementary sits on Shadow Tree Street in North Las Vegas, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within the Clark County School District. It is a neighborhood school in the traditional sense, not a charter and not a magnet, drawing from the surrounding residential streets of a city that has been one of the fastest-growing in the Las Vegas Valley.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial Black enrollment and smaller shares of Asian, white, multiracial, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander students. Every student in the building qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which marks this as a school serving a uniformly low-income population. Data on individualized education programs and English-learner status was not available in the sources reviewed, so it is hard to say how the school's special-population supports are structured from this information alone.
On state assessments, the most recent results place proficiency in the low range across all tested subjects. Math and English language arts proficiency were each reported at roughly a quarter or just under, with English language arts slightly ahead of math. Science proficiency was very low, with only a handful of students reaching the proficient bar. Testing covered grades three through five, the grades this school serves that fall within the state's tested band. Participation was strong, with nearly all eligible students sitting for the exams. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say from these sources whether performance is improving, declining, or holding steady. A parent may want to ask the school directly about how it plans to address these results, particularly in science, where the gap between current proficiency and grade-level expectations is widest.
North Las Vegas itself is a suburban city built around master-planned communities like Aliante and Eldorado, separated from large industrial and warehouse-distribution corridors. The built environment is car-dependent, with parks and recreation centers serving as community gathering points rather than a traditional downtown street-life setting. The city maintains an extensive park system, several libraries across different neighborhoods, and a network of paved regional trails connecting to the broader Southern Nevada trail system. Major employers range from Nellis Air Force Base and the Department of Energy Nevada Test Site to Amazon fulfillment and Sephora distribution operations, with newer arrivals in solar, green technology, and rail manufacturing. The city has been among the fastest-growing in the nation, and publicly reported figures indicate home prices have doubled over the past several years.
In the school's immediate zip code, home values sit below the Nevada state benchmark but above the national figure, and values have dipped modestly year over year. Rents are also somewhat lower than the state level and have declined slightly. The affordability picture is mixed: renting consumes a moderate share of typical household income, while buying requires a higher income relative to home prices than the national average, in part because current mortgage rates add to monthly costs. For families already in the neighborhood, renting remains less expensive month to month than carrying a mortgage.
Several categories of information were not available for this school. Civil-rights data, discipline records, staffing figures, attendance patterns, course access details, and program offerings were all absent from the sources reviewed. Title I status was also not reported, though the universal free-or reduced-price-lunch rate suggests the school almost certainly receives federal support for low-income students. No comparison fact-set was provided, so positioning this school against nearby Clark County elementaries is not possible from this data alone. The district brief for Clark County returned no parent-relevant policy, curriculum, or funding changes.
What the picture does show is a small elementary school serving an economically disadvantaged, majority-Hispanic student body in a growing suburban city, with state test results that point to real academic challenges and little contextual data beyond that to round out the picture. Families considering this school would benefit from asking about intervention strategies, staff retention, and what the school's own internal assessments show about student growth.
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