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Mannion Jack & Terry MS
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Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Nevada schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Nevada's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mannion Jack & Terry MS
Set in Henderson, Nevada, Mannion Jack & Terry MS is a heavily attended 6-8 campus, part of Clark County. It instructs 1,463 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 91% above the state mean of about 767.
Within Clark County, which oversees 375 schools and 301,622 students, Mannion Jack & Terry MS is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Mannion Jack & Terry MS shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.
On the resource side, The school lists 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mannion Jack & Terry MS ranks in the top 10% of Nevada public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.5%; Mannion Jack & Terry MS posts 51.2%, +18.7 points above that line.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,472, 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 Mannion Jack & Terry MS is one.
Smalley James E & A Rae ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mannion Jack & Terry MS comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.
Mannion Jack & Terry MS operates from a downtown location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mannion Jack & Terry MS has contracted 6%, going from 1,555 students in 2018 to 1,463 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 59% to 54% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 in 2025.
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