There's good news for schools in the Clark County School District -- The Nevada Report Card released on Monday shows positive results when it comes to student learning.
More than 136 of CCSD's nearly 370 schools improved their star ratings in the 2024-2025 school year.
Star ratings are a rating system that classifies school performance on a scale of one to five stars, with five being the best.
Star ratings are calculated through categories such as math and English language arts proficiency and growth, graduation rates, and student attendance.
Quannah McCall Elementary School's principal and CCSD leaders surprised teachers on Monday morning, revealing that they are officially a four-star school . That's a jump of two stars from the previous year.
"In ELA and math, we just really push tier one core instruction. That is the basis of everything that we do at the elementary level," said Amanda Lush, principal at the North Las Vegas school.
Lush, who took on her role just weeks before the COVID pandemic, says having children start learning early, as well as being fully staffed, also provided an advantage.
"We're fortunate at McCall that we do have two full-day pre-K programs, so we have 20 kids in each program, and that builds the foundation for everything," she said.
Counselor Gianna Rodriguez says that in an area facing more challenges than others, what has really improved student scores is involving parents.
"Our parents come to parent meetings once a month, and they learn skills about, you know, how to check their kids' grades, how to help with homework," said Rodriguez.
CCSD Superintendent Jhone Ebert was there to celebrate with teachers during the announcement. She said 48 schools received five stars, up from 28 schools in the previous year.
Overall, 37% of schools increased their star rankings.
Ebert says there are several factors that led to the improvements.
Making sure that we have high-quality tier one instruction," said Ebert. "Today is a professional development day. We need to make sure that all of our teachers have the training that they need to meet every single child where they're at right now. Also, too, we have parent-teacher conferences coming up at the elementary level.
Due to a cyber-attack that has caused an outage of some websites, individual data for math and English Language Arts proficiency are not yet available for the 2024-2025 school year.
However, according to the Nevada Department of Education, all grade levels in the state showed improvement in math and English Language Arts proficiency.
To compare, 30.1% of students in Clark County were proficient in math in the 2023-2024 school year, a 1.9 percentage-point increase compared to the 2022-23 school year.
In English Language Arts, the CCSD proficiency rate was 39.3%, up 0.3 percentage points from the previous year.
"When we are all together next year, the data is going to show that we have surpassed pre-pandemic levels and are making a very steep climb on behalf of all of our children," said Ebert.
She says this year, the district is focusing on the Core 4: expanding pre-K, early literacy, increasing math scores, and workforce development at the high school level.
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