Best High Schools in Zip Code 89144

Zip code 89144 — the northwest Las Vegas valley area around 333 S Pavilion Center Drive — contains exactly one high school in this data set: Palo Verde High School, a grades 9–12 campus of 2,938 students in the Clark County district. Because there is no in-zip peer to compare against, the meaningful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own year-over-year history.

On nearly every measure, Palo Verde outperforms both. It ranks 21st of 105 Nevada high schools for 2025–26 (80th percentile, 4 stars) — well above Clark County's 58th-percentile district standing — and has held the 4-star tier across three reported years. Graduation runs 93.4%, versus 86.6% for the district and 85.4% for the state. Proficiency gaps are large: ACT English 73.7% versus 51.2% district and 50.8% state; ACT Math 40.5% versus 22.3% and 22.6%; End-of-Course Science 40% versus 27% and 26.5%. Tenth-grade science is the standout, at 42% versus 13.5% district and 18.5% state — though that district and state figure is unusually low for the grade band, so it is worth a closer look rather than a straight "best result" reading.

Two watch items stand out for families. First, chronic absenteeism is 30.8% — above the district's 27.0% and the state's 25.5% — the one metric where the school trails rather than leads. Second, math proficiency is flat (40.9% to 40.5%) even as English rose (71.5% to 73.7%), leaving a 33.2-point internal gap between English and math at the same grade level and in the same year. Reported per-student spending of $10,014 and a 100% free/reduced lunch rate come with no district or state comparators in this data set; the lunch figure is best read as a universal meal-program designation rather than a direct measure of household poverty.