Cortney Francis H JHS

Cortney Francis H JHS operates as a mid-sized intermediate school in Las Vegas, Nevada, overseen by Clark County. Current enrollment sits at 1,014 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 32% larger than the typical public school in Nevada, which averages around 767 students.

Cortney Francis H JHS is one of 375 schools operated by Clark County, a district that educates 301,622 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Cortney Francis H JHS logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 26% Black, 9% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.4:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Cortney Francis H JHS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.5%; actual is 13.8%, a gap of -18.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,472 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Cortney Francis H JHS is one of 462 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students).

Nearest neighbor: Harmon Harley ES, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cortney Francis H JHS comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.0%.

Cortney Francis H JHS operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Cortney Francis H JHS's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,219 (now 1,014). Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 15% to 26%. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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