Original Research by School Decision on Southeast Career Technical Academy Hs
Southeast Career Technical Academy HS sits in the Las Vegas zip code area of Clark County, serving grades nine through twelve as a regular public school within the Clark County School District. The name signals a career-technical focus, though the available data does not detail specific program offerings, so families would want to contact the school directly for particulars on what pathways are available and how students enter them.
This is a large high school, with enrollment distributed across all four grade levels and a small number of ungraded students. The student body is majority Hispanic, with White students forming the next largest group, followed by smaller populations of Asian, multiracial, Black, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaska Native students. Every student enrolled qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which reflects the economic profile of the surrounding community and the families this school serves. Data on individualized education programs and English learner status was not reported, so those breakdowns are not available here.
The most recent state assessment results, from the 2024-25 school year, paint a mixed picture. English language arts proficiency is strikingly high, with the large majority of students meeting proficiency standards. Mathematics proficiency, by contrast, is well below that level, with fewer than half of students demonstrating proficiency. This gap between ELA and math is wide and worth a conversation with school staff. A parent may want to look into how the school approaches math instruction, what support structures exist for students struggling in that subject, and whether the career-technical focus draws instructional time or resources toward applied math in ways that the standard state assessment does not capture. Because only a single year of data is available, there is no trend to assess whether these results are improving, holding steady, or reflecting a recent change.
No graduation rate was provided in the available data, nor were civil-rights indicators such as discipline rates, course access, or staffing metrics. The data set also lacked a school environment summary covering attendance, locale classification, and Title I status, so this account cannot speak to those dimensions. A family evaluating this school should ask the administration directly about graduation outcomes and any school climate data the state or district publishes separately.
The surrounding housing market gives context for families considering the area. Typical home values in the school's zip code sit below the Nevada state benchmark but above the national figure, and values have dipped modestly over the past year. Rents are lower relative to the estimated monthly cost of purchasing a home at current mortgage rates, which means renting in this area costs a family meaningfully less per month than carrying a mortgage. The price-to-income ratio runs above the national average, so buying here stretches household budgets more than in many parts of the country. Unemployment, tracked at the national level, has held in a narrow range over the past year, and median household income has grown gradually over the past decade.
The district brief searched for recent parent-relevant changes in Clark County School District but found no results focused on district policy, curriculum, referendum, or tax changes with lasting parent impact, so there is nothing concrete to report on that front.
What emerges from the available data is a large, economically diverse-in-income but uniformly low-income public high school with a strong ELA outcome and a clear soft spot in mathematics, situated in a Las Vegas neighborhood where housing costs more than the national average but less than the Nevada statewide benchmark. The career-technical identity is in the name, but families should look beyond the label to understand what programs exist, how students access them, and how the school plans to address the proficiency gap in math.
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