The Delta Academy J-SHS

The Delta Academy J-SHS is one of the average-sized 9-12 campuss in North Las Vegas, Nevada, overseen by Clark County, with 1,445 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 49% above the state mean of about 973.

Within Clark County, which oversees 375 schools and 301,622 students, The Delta Academy J-SHS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, The Delta Academy J-SHS lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 23% White, 21% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

Looking at school resources, Roughly 100% of students at The Delta Academy J-SHS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, The Delta Academy J-SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 18.7%, a residual of -13.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate median household income runs about $76,472, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. The Delta Academy J-SHS is one of 462 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 360,225 students).

Desert Rose HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), The Delta Academy J-SHS ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, The Delta Academy J-SHS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at The Delta Academy J-SHS has rose 225%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 1,445 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 30% to 21% over that span.

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