Summary:
ZIP code 89122 in Las Vegas has two high schools — Cowan Academic Center J-Senior High School (grades 6–12, 98 students) and Cowan Sunset Southeast High School (grades 9–12, 29 students) — both at 5300 E Russell Rd and both part of Clark County, which ranks 5th of 12 Nevada districts (58th percentile, 4 stars). Shared address and very small enrollments suggest a small alternative or specialized campus rather than a typical neighborhood school, so comparisons reflect program design and student population, not neighborhood differences.
Attendance is the clearest signal. The Academic Center reports 62.8% chronic absenteeism — about three in five students — versus 25.5% statewide; Sunset Southeast reports 46.9%. Both far exceed the district (27.0%) and state rates, and the 15.9-point gap between two programs on one campus is notable. Only Sunset Southeast reports a graduation rate, 62.5%, which trails the state's 85.4% by about 23 points. The Academic Center's graduation rate is not reported, and it serves a 100% free/reduced-lunch population with a student–teacher ratio of just 5.1.
Every school-level test score is suppressed by the state for privacy, so proficiency is unknown — not zero — and no academic ranking of these schools is possible from this data. Spending is very high and inversely tied to size: $42,080 per student at the Academic Center and $112,170 at Sunset Southeast, which has one-third the students but 2.7 times the per-pupil spending, a classic signature of fixed costs spread across tiny enrollments. Full details on any single metric, including poverty and staffing, are available for only one school each, so side-by-side comparisons are limited.
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