Sawyer Grant MS

Sawyer Grant MS, an average-sized junior high in Las Vegas, Nevada, overseen by Clark County, enrolls 1,149 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 767 students each, so Sawyer Grant MS sits 50% larger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Sawyer Grant MS logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 26% Black, 11% Asian, 8% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Sawyer Grant MS records 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. The state averages around 22.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Sawyer Grant MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 28.5%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Clark County shows median household income runs about $76,472, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clark County's 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), Sawyer Grant MS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Earl Marion B ES, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sawyer Grant MS ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.4%.

Sawyer Grant MS operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sawyer Grant MS has fell 6%, going from 1,216 students in 2018 to 1,149 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged up from 17% to 26% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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