Summary
Las Vegas Academy of the Arts High School is a grade 9–12 arts-focused high school in the Clark County district, located at 315 S 7th St in downtown Las Vegas, NV 89101, and it enrolls 1,743 students. It ranked 8th of 105 Nevada high schools in 2025–2026 (92nd percentile, 5 stars), and 6th of 103 in 2024–2025 (94th percentile, 5 stars), placing it near the top 10% of the state for most of the last decade.
Test results are far above district and state averages: 89% in English ACT, 45% in Math ACT, and 56.8% on the Science EOC End of Course, compared with 51.2% and 22.3% for Clark County and 50.8% and 22.6% statewide. The contrast with nearby comprehensive high schools is stark. Rancho High School ranked 59th of 105 (44th percentile), with 49.7% in English ACT, 20.8% in Math ACT, and 22.4% in Science. Valley High School ranked 89th of 105 (15th percentile), at 35.3%, 8.6%, and 13.5%. Chronic absenteeism is 20.4%, below the district (27.0%) and state (25.5%) and well below Rancho (38.3%) and Valley (42.2%), though it rose from 17.9% the prior year.
What stands out is that 100% of students qualify for free/reduced-price lunch, yet the low-SES subgroup ranked 6th of 64 statewide (91st percentile, 5 stars) in both 2025–2026 and 2024–2025, and the Hispanic subgroup ranked 8th of 65 (88th percentile, 4 stars). Other subgroup results are less uniform: Asian students were at the 72nd percentile in 2023–2024 (62nd–63rd percentile in earlier years), and multi-racial students ranged from the 47th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 83rd percentile in 2024–2025. Per-student spending was $13,163 in 2023–2024, and the student-teacher ratio was 21.6 in 2024–2025 — similar to Rancho and Valley, so strong results are not explained by smaller classes. Graduation-rate data is not provided, and several nearby schools have test scores suppressed by the state, meaning those figures are unknown rather than zero.
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