ALICE MAXWELL ELEMENTARY

ALICE MAXWELL ELEMENTARY is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in SPARKS, Nevada, one of the schools within Washoe County, with 368 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 23% below the typical public school in Nevada, which averages around 480 students.

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

On demographics, ALICE MAXWELL ELEMENTARY records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 17% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Washoe County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, ALICE MAXWELL ELEMENTARY has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at ALICE MAXWELL ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washoe County (around 56%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALICE MAXWELL 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 44.3%, a residual of +11.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Washoe County put the typical household earns roughly $88,096 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washoe County runs 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,279 students), of which ALICE MAXWELL ELEMENTARY is one.

SPARKS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALICE MAXWELL ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 30.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALICE MAXWELL ELEMENTARY has fell 32%, going from 542 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 71% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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