Garrett Elton M JHS

Located at 1200 Ave G, in Boulder City, Nevada, Garrett Elton M JHS is a low-enrollment middle school that serves 399 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Clark County. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 767 students each, so Garrett Elton M JHS sits 48% smaller than that benchmark.

Clark County comprises 375 schools with combined enrollment of 301,622 students; Garrett Elton M JHS is among them.

Demographically, Garrett Elton M JHS shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Garrett Elton M JHS sits in the top 10% of Nevada schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 32.5%; actual is 53.5%, +21.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, census data for Clark County shows median household income runs about $76,472, 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 Garrett Elton M JHS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Boulder City HS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Garrett Elton M JHS. On composite proficiency, Garrett Elton M JHS comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 439 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 12% to 17%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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