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Brinley J Harold MS
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nevada schools, those numbers are about 46 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Nevada schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Nevada's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Brinley J Harold MS
As an average-sized intermediate school in Las Vegas, Nevada, Brinley J Harold MS instructs 885 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Clark County.
Clark County runs 375 schools in total, collectively educating 301,622 students. Brinley J Harold MS is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Brinley J Harold MS logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%; the rest looks like 20% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Brinley J Harold MS logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. The state averages around 22.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brinley J Harold MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 19.8%, a residual of -12.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, 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 the poverty rate sits near 10%. Brinley J Harold MS is one of 462 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students).
The closest other public school is Bunker Berkeley L ES, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brinley J Harold MS comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Five-year trend. Brinley J Harold MS's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 935 (now 885).
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Brinley J Harold MS typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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