Original Research by School Decision on Silverado Hs
Silverado High School sits in the southern reaches of Las Vegas, serving grades nine through twelve as a regular public school within the Clark County School District. The campus on Silver Hawk Avenue draws a large and diverse student body, with enrollment substantial enough to place it among the bigger high schools in its area. Hispanic students form the largest single group, followed by white students, with smaller but meaningful populations of Black, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and multiracial students. The reported free-and-reduced-price lunch rate is universal, meaning every enrolled student qualifies under that measure. This is a school where economic disadvantage is not a subset of the population but the baseline, and that context matters for how a family reads the academic results.
State testing data is available for the most recent year only, so there is no trend to observe. In English language arts, a little over a third of students reached proficiency. In math, the share was notably lower, with fewer than one in five testing proficient. These are soft results by most standards. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, asking what supports and interventions are in place for students who arrive below grade level, and how the school tracks growth over the high school years rather than proficiency alone. With only a single year of data, it is also hard to know whether these numbers represent a dip, a plateau, or a longer pattern.
Several important pieces were not available in the data provided. There is no graduation rate. There is no information about English learner or special education enrollment, which would help a family understand the peer environment and the range of needs the school is addressing. Course access data, including any Advanced Placement, dual-credit, or career and technical offerings, was not included. Staffing figures, attendance patterns, and discipline data were also absent. We looked for the district's recent parent-relevant changes, such as policy shifts, curriculum updates, or budget decisions, and found little that spoke to those topics, so we left it out rather than guess.
The housing context around the school's zip code tells a family something about what living here costs. Typical home values sit somewhat below the Nevada state benchmark and above the national one, with rents following a similar pattern. Both home values and rents in this area have edged down slightly compared to a year earlier, bucking the national trend of modest home-value appreciation. For a family weighing a move, the area is more affordable than much of Nevada on the ownership side, and rents are moderate relative to income. The estimated mortgage on a typical home at current rates runs higher than typical rent, which may push some families toward renting unless they have a substantial down payment.
Silverado is a large, economically disadvantaged, diverse high school in an affordable corner of the Las Vegas metro area, operating inside one of the country's biggest school districts. Its academic results are currently weak, particularly in math, and the data gaps mean a family cannot fully evaluate the school's supports, offerings, or outcomes from what is publicly reported here. A family considering Silverado would do well to ask the school directly about its programs, its approach to students performing below grade level, and what the graduation and post-graduation picture looks like for its students.
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