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Molasky Irwin & Susan JHS
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 19% 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 Molasky Irwin & Susan JHS
As a reasonably sized intermediate school in Las Vegas, Nevada, Molasky Irwin & Susan JHS serves 912 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Clark County.
Clark County runs 375 schools in total, collectively educating 301,622 students. Molasky Irwin & Susan JHS is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Molasky Irwin & Susan JHS records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 14% White, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.4:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Molasky Irwin & Susan JHS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 19.0%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Clark County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,472, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which Molasky Irwin & Susan JHS is one.
Kahre Marc ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Molasky Irwin & Susan JHS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Five-year trend. Molasky Irwin & Susan JHS's enrollment has declined 18% since 2018, when it stood at 1,118 (now 912). Over the same period, the White share fell from 18% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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