Acceleration Academy

Acceleration Academy operates as a big high school in North Las Vegas, Nevada, overseen by Clark County. Current enrollment sits at 2,092 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 115% bigger than the state mean of about 973.

Within Clark County, which oversees 375 schools and 301,622 students, Acceleration Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Acceleration Academy logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 22% Black, 14% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Roughly 100% of students at Acceleration Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,472, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Clark County's 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), Acceleration Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Priest Richard C ES, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Acceleration Academy.

The school occupies a downtown site.

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