Garside Frank F JHS

Located at 300 S Torrey Pines Dr, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Garside Frank F JHS is a reasonably sized junior high that instructs 1,017 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Clark County. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 767 students each, so Garside Frank F JHS sits 33% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 375 schools in Clark County (301,622 students total), Garside Frank F JHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Garside Frank F JHS reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Black, 6% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

On the resource side, On paper, Garside Frank F JHS has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Garside Frank F JHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Garside Frank F JHS is in the bottom 10% of Nevada public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.5%; Garside Frank F JHS posts 17.3%, -15.2 points below that line.

In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Clark County's 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), Garside Frank F JHS is one campus in the mix.

Adcock O K ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garside Frank F JHS. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garside Frank F JHS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 1,208 students in 2018 compared to 1,017 in 2025.

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