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Sedway Marvin M MS
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sedway Marvin M MS
Sedway Marvin M MS is a reasonably sized middle-grades school in N Las Vegas, Nevada, overseen by Clark County. The school works with 1,038 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 35% above the state mean of about 767.
Clark County runs 375 schools in total, collectively educating 301,622 students. Sedway Marvin M MS is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Sedway Marvin M MS reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school records 25% Black, 3% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.4:1, putting Sedway Marvin M MS higher than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sedway Marvin M MS is in the bottom 10% of Nevada public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.5%; Sedway Marvin M MS posts 16.8%, -15.8 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, Clark County reports that median household income runs about $76,472, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Clark County runs 462 public schools (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students), of which Sedway Marvin M MS is one.
The closest other public school is Perkins Dr Claude G ES, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sedway Marvin M MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sedway Marvin M MS at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 32.5%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Sedway Marvin M MS's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 1,364 (now 1,038). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 62% to 66% over that span.
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