Summary:
ZIP code 89141 in Las Vegas, Nevada contains just one middle school in this data set: Tarkanian Lois & Jerry Middle School, a large campus serving grades 6–8 with 1,313 students in the Clark County district. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no neighborhood peers to compare it against; the useful benchmarks are the district and Nevada state averages.
Academically, Tarkanian performs above both benchmarks in every reported subject for 2025–2026. Reading is its strongest area at 57.9% proficient, which is 14.6 points above the district and 12.7 points above the state. Math comes in at 43.6% (up 9.8 points over the district), and science at 36.4% (up 12.9 points). Grade-level results show 7th grade as the bright spot: 7th grade reading reached 62.9% and 7th grade math 51.2%, the largest margin over district and state in the record. The relative soft spots are 8th grade math (38.9%) and 8th grade science (36.4%), which still beat district and state averages but by narrower margins. Year over year, reading fell 4.0 points and science 5.3 points, while math held nearly flat. The school's state ranking slipped from 40th of 151 with 4 stars in 2024–2025 to 46th of 148 with 3 stars in 2025–2026, still within the top third of Nevada middle schools.
Two contextual facts stand out for parents. First, 100% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 24.3 — significant challenges alongside above-average results. Second, chronic absenteeism was 26.6%, slightly better than the district's 27.0% but slightly worse than the state's 25.5%, meaning roughly one in four students misses enough school to be a concern. Spending was $10,941 per student in 2023–2024. Overall, this is a strong-performing, high-poverty school whose reading and 7th grade math results are its clearest strengths, with reading and science momentum, 8th grade math and science, and absenteeism worth watching.
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