Original Research by School Decision on Cimarron-memorial Hs
Cimarron-Memorial High School sits on North Tenaya Way in the northwest reaches of Las Vegas, part of the Clark County School District. It is a regular public high school serving grades nine through twelve, and its enrollment makes it one of the larger high schools in its area. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial Black population and smaller White, Asian, multiracial, Native American, and Pacific Islander groups rounding out the mix. Every student at the school qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which marks it as a campus serving a community with broad economic need.
The academic picture is limited. Only a single year of state testing data was available, covering the most recent school year, and there is no multi-year trend to speak of. In English language arts, roughly a third of students reached proficiency. In math, the share was far lower, with only a small fraction demonstrating proficiency. These are the only statewide academic results provided, and the math result in particular is a figure a parent may want to look into further with the school, to understand what supports and interventions are in place. No nationally standardized academic context was available, and no subject-level breakdown beyond the all-students proficiency rates appeared in the data.
Information on special populations was incomplete. The school's data did not include rates for students with individualized education programs or for English learners, so there is no way to characterize how those groups are served or how large they are. Civil-rights data, including discipline and course-access details, was not provided. No staffing information, attendance figures, or program offerings such as Advanced Placement, career pathways, or dual-credit opportunities appeared in the available data. A parent trying to understand what classrooms and supports look like day to day would need to ask the school directly, because the publicly reported data here leaves those dimensions blank.
The school does not operate as a charter or magnet, so admissions follow standard district zoning. No Title I status was reported in the available data, though the universal free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility suggests the campus effectively serves the population that Title I programs are designed to support.
Housing in the surrounding zip code sits below the Nevada state benchmark for typical home values and modestly above the national figure. Home values have been declining on a year-over-year basis, and rents have eased slightly as well. For a family considering the area, renting remains less expensive monthly than carrying a mortgage at current rates, with the gap between the two sitting at a few hundred dollars. The price-to-income ratio runs above the national midpoint, meaning buying a home here demands a larger share of typical household earnings than in many parts of the country. The unemployment rate has held steady in a range consistent with a stable labor market.
The Clark County School District is the parent district, but the search for recent parent-relevant changes turned up little. Publicly reported results focused on county geography and government structure rather than school district policy shifts, curriculum changes, referendums, or tax measures with lasting impact on families. So there is no recent district-level development to weigh here.
What the data does establish is that Cimarron-Memorial is a large, regular public high school in northwest Las Vegas serving an economically disadvantaged, majority-Hispanic student body, with recent proficiency results that show strength in literacy relative to mathematics and a math proficiency level that stands out as a concern worth direct conversation with the school. The absence of program details, staffing data, special-population figures, and civil-rights reporting means the portrait is thinner than a family would want. Those gaps are not unusual for a school at this grade band in a large urban district, but they do mean a parent should treat this read as a starting point and bring specific questions about course access, student support, and school climate to the campus itself.
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