Mackey Jo MS

As an one-room-style middle school in NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Mackey Jo MS teaches 244 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Clark County. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 767 students each, so Mackey Jo MS sits 68% leaner than that benchmark.

Clark County comprises 375 schools with combined enrollment of 301,622 students; Mackey Jo MS is among them.

Looking at the student body, Mackey Jo MS lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 34% Black, 11% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Mackey Jo MS records 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. 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, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mackey Jo MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 47.7%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Clark County) records that 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%. Mackey Jo MS is one of 462 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mackey Jo ES, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mackey Jo MS comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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