Summary:
ZIP code 89074 is home to exactly one high school: Nevada State High School Henderson, a state-sponsored charter school serving grades 11–12 with 182 students. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no nearby schools to compare it against; the most useful benchmarks are its district, State Sponsored Charter Schools — ranked 2nd of 12 districts at the 83rd percentile — and the state of Nevada as a whole. The school enrolled 24.18% of students in free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025 and reported $5,222 in per-student spending in 2023–2024.
Academically, the school's clearest strength is English. In 2025–2026, 74.4% of 11th graders were proficient in ACT English, compared with 52.8% in the district and 50.8% statewide — more than 20 percentage points above both. Mathematics proficiency was 29.5%, also above the district (21.9%) and state (22.6%), but far below English. That English-over-mathematics gap was 44.9 percentage points in 2025–2026 and 42.7 points the year before, making it the school's most visible imbalance. Encouragingly, the school improved in both subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 (mathematics +4.8 points, English +7.0 points) while its district declined in both.
Statewide, the school has held a top-third position for three years: 35th of 105 in 2025–2026 (67th percentile, 3 stars), 38th of 103 in 2024–2025 (3 stars), and 30th of 97 in 2023–2024 (4 stars). Its star rating slipped from 4 to 3 even as its percentile edged up, so it is best described as consistently strong but not top-tier. Two notes for parents: the reported student/teacher ratio of 1,654.5 is not plausible and should not be used to judge class size, and as a small school with a focused grade range, its yearly proficiency percentages can shift more than a large comprehensive high school's would.
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