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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Knudson K O Academy of the Arts administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,176
Middle
DISTRICT 1,058 · STATE 767
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLARK COUNTY·NCES 320006000062
Knudson K O Academy of the Arts
2400 Atlantic St, Las Vegas, NV 89104 · (702) 799-7470 · Clark County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,176 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 48% of Nevada public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Nevada public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.9:1 · STATE 22.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
1,176 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 85%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 414 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 418 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 344 | 29% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Knudson K O Academy of the Arts→Valley High School
Based on published attendance-zone data from Clark County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
41.4%
NV avg 45.8% . -0.6pp since 2023
Math
17.5%
NV avg 35.6% . +3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nevada schools, those numbers are about 46 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.4% | 17.5% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 13.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Nevada SBAC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Knudson K O Academy of the Arts
Knudson K O Academy of the Arts's state test result (28.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knudson K O Academy of the Arts this school | 1,176 | 100.0% | 28.3% |
| Keller Duane D Middle School Las Vegas | 1,062 | 100.0% | 17.3% |
| Woodbury C W Middle School Las Vegas | 767 | 100.0% | 15.6% |
| Gibson Robert O MS Leadership Academy Las Vegas | 1,152 | 100.0% | 26.6% |
| Garside Frank F Junior High School Las Vegas | 1,017 | 100.0% | 17.3% |
| Martin Roy W Middle School Las Vegas | 1,136 | 100.0% | 19.4% |
Matched among Nevada middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Knudson K O Academy of the Arts ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Clark County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #50 of 94 | #34 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.5% | #64 of 98 ▼ 1 | #38 of 59 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #42 of 98 ▼ 12 | #30 of 59 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,176 | #24 of 113 | #23 of 61 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #20 of 94 | #12 of 59 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.7% | #72 of 94 | #44 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #15 of 95 | #14 of 60 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.1% | #57 of 68 | #41 of 50 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,176
-159 (-12%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 914
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 23.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,176 | 62 | 19.0:1 | 100% (1,176) |
| 2023-24 | 1,175 | 54 | 21.8:1 | 100% (1,175) |
| 2022-23 | 1,215 | 60 | 20.3:1 | 100% (1,214) |
| 2020-21 | 1,335 | 56 | 23.8:1 | 100% (1,332) |
| 2017-18 | 1,252 | 59 | 21.2:1 | 100% (1,249) |
| 2015-16 | 1,324 | 58 | 22.8:1 | 80% (1,065) |
| 2010-11 | 1,284 | 59 | 21.8:1 | 65% (836) |
| 2000-01 | 1,296 | 59 | 22.0:1 | 45% (586) |
| 1990-91 | 914 | 44 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Knudson K O Academy of the Arts.
About Knudson K O Academy of the Arts
In Las Vegas, Nevada, part of Clark County, Knudson K O Academy of the Arts is a middle-grades school. The school's 1,176 students are in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 53% higher than the average for middle schools in Nevada, which is about 767.
Knudson K O Academy of the Arts falls under Clark County, which has 375 schools enrolling 301,622 students.
Hispanic students account for 71% of enrollment at Knudson K O Academy of the Arts. Smaller groups are 12% Black, 9% White, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Clark County is roughly 32% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Knudson K O Academy of the Arts belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 47%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.0:1 at Knudson K O Academy of the Arts, with 62 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 22.4:1 average for middle schools in Nevada is higher than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 100%.
Knudson K O Academy of the Arts is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 48% of Nevada public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Knudson K O Academy of the Arts is 4.2 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 28.3% actual, 32.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Nevada.
Across Clark County, median household income is about $76,472, roughly 28% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The public schools of Clark County number 462 and enroll about 360,225.
Nearest public school: Dearing Laura Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Knudson K O Academy of the Arts holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 25.4% on proficiency, and Knudson K O Academy of the Arts is above that at 28.3%.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 1,335 in 2020-21 and 1,176 in 2024-25, a decrease of 159 students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 23.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 19.0:1.
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Clark County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,329,548
Census ACS
Median income
$76,472
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
462
360,225 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clark County
- NV Learning Academy J-SHSHigh · 3,352 students
- Desert Oasis High SchoolHigh · 3,300 students
- Sierra Vista High SchoolHigh · 3,255 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 3,203 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 3,147 students
- Arbor View High SchoolHigh · 3,069 students
Other schools in Las Vegas
- NV Learning Academy J-SHSHigh · 3,352 students
- Desert Oasis High SchoolHigh · 3,300 students
- Sierra Vista High SchoolHigh · 3,255 students
- Arbor View High SchoolHigh · 3,069 students
- Desert Pines High SchoolHigh · 3,011 students
- Centennial High SchoolHigh · 2,961 students
Nearby schools
- Dearing Laura Elementary School0.3 mi · 600
- Valley High School0.6 mi · 2,467
- Lake Robert E Elementary School0.9 mi · 682
- Crestwood Elementary School0.9 mi · 551
- Innovations Int'l Charter Elementary School0.9 mi · 365
- Central Technical Training Academy1.2 mi · 92
Frequently asked questions
About Knudson K O Academy of the ArtsHow large is Knudson K O Academy of the Arts?
Knudson K O Academy of the Arts enrolls approximately 1,176 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Knudson K O Academy of the Arts serve?
Knudson K O Academy of the Arts serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Knudson K O Academy of the Arts?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Knudson K O Academy of the Arts is approximately 19.0:1 (62 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Knudson K O Academy of the Arts?
Knudson K O Academy of the Arts reports a student body of 9% White, 71% Hispanic, 12% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Knudson K O Academy of the Arts?
Knudson K O Academy of the Arts is overseen by Clark County in Clark County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.