Summary:
ZIP code 89123 in Las Vegas, Nevada is home to two middle schools serving grades 6–8 in the Clark County school district: Silvestri Charles Junior High School (1,076 students) and Schofield Jack Lund Middle School (988 students), together enrolling 2,064 students.
Schofield Jack Lund Middle School is the clear performance leader. It posts higher proficiency than Silvestri Charles Junior High School in all three subjects — Math 25.9% vs 19.2%, Reading 42.5% vs 36.7%, and Science 30.7% vs 26.2% — and ranks 84th of 148 Nevada middle schools against Silvestri's 101st. It is also the only school here beating both district and state chronic absenteeism (24.5%, versus 27.0% district and 25.5% state), and it does so while spending less per student ($12,912 vs $13,632) and running larger classes (22.4 vs 19.2 students per teacher). Silvestri's story is momentum and scale: it is the larger school, improved its state rank from the 24th to the 32nd percentile over three years, and is the only one to earn a star upgrade, from 1 star to 2 stars. Its weak spot is attendance — 29.5% of students are chronically absent, above both benchmarks.
Both schools serve a 100% free/reduced lunch population, so economics does not explain the gap between them. The shared academic challenge is Mathematics, where both sit below district and state at every grade, and both show a reading-over-math spread of roughly 16 to 17 points — about double the district's and state's spread. Schofield Jack Lund Middle School won eight of nine grade-level subject comparisons; its 7th-grade Reading (52.2%) is the only figure in the data beating the state. Its Math also jumped 5.3 points year over year, the largest gain anywhere. Science looks like a strength or a modest shortfall depending on whether you use all-grades or 8th-grade baselines.
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