AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY

AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of cozy scale in SPARKS, Nevada, run under Washoe County, caters to 363 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 480 students each, so AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Washoe County comprises 113 schools with combined enrollment of 63,412 students; AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY is among them.

Looking at the student body, AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%); the rest is composed of 6% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Washoe County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 21.8%, a residual of -10.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Washoe County shows median household income runs about $88,096, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washoe County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,279 students), AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

SPARKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. AGNES RISLEY ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 430 (now 363). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 76% to 86% over that span.

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