The top reported proficiency rate is 48% in English language arts. The lowest is 29% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Leavitt Justice Myron E Ms
Myron E. Leavitt Justice Middle School sits in the northwest corner of Las Vegas, serving grades six through eight as part of the Clark County School District. It is a large middle school by enrollment, with each grade band close to evenly populated, giving it the feel of a big, bustling campus rather than a small community school. The student body is racially and ethnically mixed, with Hispanic and white students each making up the largest shares, followed by a meaningful Black population and smaller groups of Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, multiracial, and American Indian or Alaska Native students. Every student at the school qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which signals a uniformly economically disadvantaged enrollment and means the school operates with the funding, staffing, and support structures that come with serving a high-poverty population.
On state assessments, the school's results paint a mixed but not unusual picture for a high-poverty middle school in a large urban district. In English language arts, just under half of tested students reached proficiency, which is a respectable showing given the school's demographics and size. Math was weaker, with well under a third of students scoring proficient, suggesting that math instruction or math readiness is an area where families may want to ask the school directly about supports, tutoring, or curriculum pacing. Science proficiency fell between the two, with roughly a third of tested students meeting the bar. Participation was strong across all three subjects, so these results reflect nearly the entire student body rather than a skewed subset. Average scale scores were not available, and no multi-year trend data was provided, so there is no way to tell from the available information whether proficiency is improving, declining, or holding steady. A parent looking at Leavitt would be well served to ask the school for its own internal trend data and any growth measures it tracks.
The school does not have a charter or magnet designation, and no Title I status was reported, though the universal free-lunch eligibility strongly suggests the school functions under similar conditions. Data on individualized education programs, English learner status, discipline, course access, staffing ratios, and attendance was not available, so the picture of student support services is incomplete. These gaps are common in state-level data files and do not by themselves indicate a problem, but they do leave a parent without visibility into how the school serves students with disabilities or those learning English.
The surrounding neighborhood is a Las Vegas zip code where home values sit close to the state benchmark and above the national one, with typical single-family homes priced in the mid-range for the Las Vegas metro. Home values have dipped slightly over the past year, and rents have softened a touch as well, making the area marginally more affordable than it was recently. Still, the estimated monthly mortgage on a typical home here runs well above what a household at the national median income would pay in rent, so ownership remains a stretch for many families relative to renting. The rental market is more forgiving, with rents taking up a modest share of a median household income. Unemployment nationally has been stable in a healthy range.
We searched for recent parent-relevant changes in the Clark County School District, such as policy shifts, curriculum updates, bond measures, or tax decisions, but came up with little that is specific and lasting. The district is enormous and complex, and public reporting tends to surface governance and structural topics rather than classroom-level changes. A family considering Leavitt should treat the school-level data as the best available window and supplement it with a direct conversation with school leadership about academic supports, enrichment offerings, and how the campus handles its large enrollment.
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