The top reported proficiency rate is 34% in English language arts. The lowest is 24% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Cram Brian & Teri Ms
Cram Brian& Teri Middle School sits on West Deer Springs Way in North Las Vegas, serving grades six through eight as a regular public school within the Clark County School District. The campus draws from a suburban city that has been one of the fastest-growing corners of the Las Vegas Valley, a place where master-planned communities like Aliante and Eldorado sit alongside sprawling industrial and warehouse-distribution corridors. Publicly reported sources describe a city that annexed large stretches of desert in the 1990s for residential development and has kept growing since, with employers such as Nellis Air Force Base, Amazon, Sephora, and Bigelow Aerospace anchoring the local economy. New industrial investment has continued, including a PCM Railone AG production facility and North American headquarters announced in 2024. The built environment is car-dependent, with civic life organized around parks, libraries, and recreation centers rather than a traditional downtown, and the school sits within this dispersed suburban pattern.
The school's enrollment is large for a middle school, spread across the three grade levels. Every student qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which places Cram firmly in the category of schools serving a high-poverty community. The student body is majority Hispanic, with a substantial Black population and smaller groups of white, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska Native, and multiracial students. This is a diverse campus reflecting the broader demographics of North Las Vegas. Data on English learners and students with individualized education programs was not available, so those population shares remain unknown here.
On state assessments, Cram's results tell a mixed story. In English language arts, roughly a third of tested students reached proficiency, which was the strongest of the three reported subjects. Science proficiency landed at a similar level among the tested grade. Math was the soft spot, with under a quarter of students scoring proficient or above. Participation was strong across all three subjects. A parent looking at these numbers may want to ask the school how it supports students performing below grade level, particularly in math, and what tutoring or intervention structures are in place. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say from the provided information whether these results represent improvement, decline, or stability.
Because Cram serves only middle school grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and no high school course access data applies here. The payload did not include information on advanced or elective course offerings, extracurricular activities, or magnet programs, so those aspects of the school experience remain unspecified. Discipline data, staffing ratios, and attendance figures were also absent, leaving a limited picture of the school environment beyond test scores and demographics.
The housing market around the school reflects North Las Vegas's rapid growth arc. Publicly reported sources note that home prices in the city have doubled over a recent multi-year span. Current data for the school's zip code shows home values somewhat above the state benchmark and well above the national benchmark, while rents remain more moderate, with the estimated monthly rent sitting below a typical mortgage payment for the area. That gap means renting is meaningfully cheaper than buying here, which may shape who moves into the attendance zone and how transient the student population is. Housing values have ticked down modestly year over year, while rents have held roughly flat.
North Las Vegas offers a fair amount of community infrastructure for families. The city maintains dozens of parks, several with water amenities, and has built out a network of paved regional trails connecting to the broader Neon to Nature system. Three public libraries serve different neighborhoods, and recreation centers including the YMCA-operated SkyView facility provide gathering points. The Clark County School District, described in publicly reported sources as among the largest districts in the country, operates across the entire Las Vegas Valley rather than being tied to a local downtown, which means Cram's families are part of a very large system with broad resources but also the distance that scale can create.
What Cram offers is a large, diverse middle school serving an economically disadvantaged community in a fast-growing suburb where housing costs have risen sharply but renting remains relatively accessible. Academic results are below state midpoints in math and middling in English and science. Families considering this school would benefit from asking direct questions about academic support structures, course offerings, and school climate, since the available data stops short of answering those questions.
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