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Coral Academy Tamarus
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Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for Nevada schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in Nevada's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Coral Academy Tamarus
Coral Academy Tamarus is one of the compact K-5 schools in Las Vegas, Nevada, run under State Sponsored Charter Schools, with 390 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.
Coral Academy Tamarus is one of 83 schools operated by State Sponsored Charter Schools, a district that serves 64,162 students overall.
On demographics, Coral Academy Tamarus records that the most-represented group is Asian (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 27% White, 22% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 11% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 39.0:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 29% of students at Coral Academy Tamarus qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Clark County (around 93%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coral Academy Tamarus is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 77.9%, a residual of +29.5 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Clark County put the typical household earns roughly $76,472 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which Coral Academy Tamarus is one.
Nearest neighbor: Schofield Jack Lund MS, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Coral Academy Tamarus comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.
Coral Academy Tamarus operates from a metropolitan location. Coral Academy Tamarus is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 382 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 27% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 39.0:1 in 2025.
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