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When Amanda Lush took over as principal at Quannah McCall Elementary in early 2020, the school had the state’s lowest rating — and the pandemic hadn’t even hit.

Now, five and a half years later, the North Las Vegas school has climbed from a one-star school to a four-star school — just shy of the state’s top rating — as children improved their performance on standardized math and English language arts tests and reduced their chronic absenteeism in the 2024-25 school year. These are key metrics in determining how a school fares in the state’s five-star Nevada School Performance Framework.

Star ratings were released Monday.

“I have waited my whole life to tell you what I already knew. I knew it in my heart. I just knew it,” Lush said

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