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Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy
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Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% 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 Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy
Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy is a large middle school in Las Vegas, Nevada, part of Clark County. The school educates 1,152 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 767 students each, so Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy sits 50% bigger than that benchmark.
Within Clark County, which oversees 375 schools and 301,622 students, Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy lists that 80% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 10% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.4:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 26.6%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Clark County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,472 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy is one.
The closest other public school is Hancock Doris ES, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.4%.
Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy operates from a city-core location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy has contracted 7%, going from 1,234 students in 2018 to 1,152 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Clark County at a glance
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