LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A highschool in North Las Vegas that was as soon as seen by most of its college students as unsafe is altering issues round.
The development in pupil habits at Cheyenne Excessive Faculty is essentially a results of elevated safety and constructing relationships with college students.
“We can get to the root cause in most cases when students come to us with some challenges,” Cheyenne H.S. Principal Anthony Nunez mentioned. “When it comes to safety, the number one thing I did was I was visible.”
Nunez is beginning his fourth 12 months as principal at Cheyenne Excessive. 8 Information Now has reported on a number of cases of violence on the college.
In accordance with a report 8 Information Now obtained, a pupil arrested with a gun final October “has affiliations with West Coast Bloods.”
“One of the first steps I took was there was an area of the building that teachers were concerned about. I stood there. I was the person that said that this is my spot, and that first step was just to show my commitment to making sure that any safety concerns, like I was owning those kinds of things,” Nunez mentioned.
Nunez’s strategy seems to be working. Clark County Faculty District surveys dad and mom, employees, and college students yearly on security. When college students answered the query, “Is my School Safe?” in 2023, solely half the coed physique reported Cheyenne Excessive Faculty as secure.
Nonetheless, this 12 months, it went as much as nearly 3 in 4 college students.
Listed here are the numbers:
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That enchancment additionally prolonged to the query of “Do students at this school threaten to hurt other students?” It went from two-thirds in 2023 to half this 12 months. Listed here are the numbers of scholars answering “yes”:
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“We are able to find out about problems before they happen,” Nunez mentioned. “We’ve increased the number of campus security monitors on campus. We are working with our campus officers to make sure that we identify just egress/ingress to the school. Just making sure we have eyes in every part of that building.”
Principal Nunez additionally credited the relationships employees members have constructed with college students over time for serving to flip issues round on the Title 1 college.
The primary day of faculty is Monday, Aug. 11.
