Sandy Valley is a bedroom community of Las Vegas located in west–central
Clark County, Nevada
Clark County is the most populous County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Nevada with 2,265,461 residents as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The county is the location of the state's three largest cities, Las Vegas (t ...
, United States. It is approximately from the southern part of Las Vegas and west of Henderson, and 20 miles from the Jean exit at Interstate 15. Sandy Valley is also located 14 miles from the historic town of Goodsprings.
Sandy Valley is home to
Sky Ranch Estates, a custom residential aviation community with private hangars and direct access to the privately owned, public-use
Sky Ranch Airport.
Geography
Sandy Valley is located in the Mesquite Valley of the Mojave desert and is bordered by the Spring Mountains' southern extension, Mount Potosi to the East, and the Kingston Mountain range to the west.
Sandy Valley has a total area of .
Education
Sandy Valley's public school falls under the jurisdiction of the
Clark County School District. The Sandy Valley School serves grades Pre-K to 12. The school offers AP Calculus and AP US Government as well as dual enrollment college credit for Linear Algebra 125, Pre-Calculus 126, English 101 and English 102.

The school offers the following sports:
Girls' Softball, Basketball, Volleyball, Cheerleading
Boys' Baseball, Basketball and Football.
Sandy Valley's school mascot is the Sidewinder.
Library

The Sandy Valley Library is operated by the
Las Vegas-Clark County Library District and has access to the entire 3.6 million circulation collection of the LVCCLD libraries.
Parks and recreation

Sandy Valley has a community center that features a sports field, basketball court, baseball field, kid's splash pad, barbecue area, playground, and barrel racing arena. The Community Center hosts many social gatherings throughout the year such as movie nights, Easter egg hunts, Fourth of July barbecues, and a Christmas light parade and caroling.
The Sandy Valley Senior Center offers social activities and events such as pancake breakfasts, watercolor painting classes, quilting classes, card games, and puzzles.
Community services

Sandy Valley offers many services and amenities, including a gas station with a general store,
USPS post office, and restaurants.
Free pet immunization clinic.
Free mobile Mammovan Clinic.
In popular culture
Country singer
Kelsea Ballerini
Kelsea Nicole Ballerini (born September 12, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. A five-time Grammy Award nominee, she began having success in the 2010s, being honored with the Academy of Country Music Awards#Special awards, Ge ...
's music video "
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical ...
" (2015) was filmed in Sandy Valley.
The Killers
The Killers are an American Rock music, rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2001 by Brandon Flowers (lead vocals, keyboards, bass) and Dave Keuning (lead guitar, backing vocals). After the band went through a number of short-term bas ...
music group filmed their music video "
Dirt Sledding" (2015) at the Sandy Valley Ranch.
The 2022 film ''
Liger
The liger is a hybrid (biology), hybrid offspring of a male lion (''Panthera leo'') and a tigress, or female tiger (''Panthera tigris''). The liger has parents in the same genus but of different species. The liger is distinct from the opposite ...
'' featuring
Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1985 and 2024. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "the Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson i ...
had scenes filmed at the Sandy Valley Ranch.
The acrobatic circus show "Ignite" performed under the stars at the Sandy Valley Ranch (2021).
Demographics
According to the 2010 census, there were 2,051 residents and 1,024 households in Sandy Valley. The median household income in Sandy Valley in 2010 was $46,389.
Notable people
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Bo Gritz, former U.S. Army soldier and political activist, lives in Sandy Valley
References
External links
Sandy Valley Citizens Advisory Council Meeting Agendas and Minutes
{{Clark County, Nevada
Census-designated places in Clark County, Nevada
Populated places in the Mojave Desert