Walter Bracken STEAM Academy, a Title 1, PK-5 public magnet school in Las Vegas, Nevada, converted a janitor’s closet into a financial center for student banking; transformed the entire school into a library; overhauled 32,000 square feet of dry grass into student-centered learning gardens; and revolutionized enrichment curriculum teaching math with drones and science with candy.
- 2013 National Blue Ribbon School
- Five Star rating on the Nevada School Performance Framework
- Outperforms both state and county proficiency rates in science and writing by more than 20 percentage points