Summary:
ZIP code 89106 in Las Vegas is home to exactly one state-identified middle school: Democracy Prep at Agassi Middle, a charter campus serving grades 6–8 with 362 students (roughly 121 per grade). It operates under State Sponsored Charter Schools. One framing point matters for parents: the five-star, 83rd-percentile rating attached to the sponsoring charter sector describes that sector overall, not this campus. The school's own standing is 2 stars at the 41st percentile of Nevada middle schools. It also reports 100% free/reduced lunch eligibility, marking the student body as universally economically disadvantaged.
Academically, the school is improving in math but not reading. All-grades math proficiency rose from 18.9% to 29.8% year over year — a gain of nearly 11 points — yet still trails the state (36.2%). Reading moved the other way, falling from 37.8% to 32.9% and sitting 12.3 points below the state (45.2%). Two results beat Nevada: 8th grade reading at 45.2% (state 41.6%) and 6th grade math at 34.1% (state 33.3%). Math proficiency declines steadily by grade, from 34.1% in 6th to 23.2% in 8th, while 8th grade reading spikes 16.3 points above the school's 7th grade result. Science results for 2025‑26 are suppressed by the state for privacy and cannot be evaluated.
The clearest challenge is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 34.8% — about double the district's 17.2% and well above the state's 25.5%, meaning roughly one in three students is chronically absent. Other structural signals include a student-teacher ratio of 40.2 and per-student spending of $9,543 (2023‑24). The trajectory, however, is upward: statewide rank improved from 110th to 106th to 88th, and percentile from 28 to 41 over three years, though the star rating has moved only from 1 to 2.
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