C. C. Meneley Elementary School

Located at 1446 Muir Dr, in Gardnerville, Nevada, C. C. Meneley Elementary School is a close-knit primary school that hosts 363 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Douglas. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 480.

Across the 15 schools in Douglas (4,927 students total), C. C. Meneley Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, C. C. Meneley Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 28% Hispanic, 8% Native American, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting C. C. Meneley Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, C. C. Meneley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 33.9%, a residual of -12.1 points.

In the broader community, Douglas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $90,754 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Douglas County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,927 students), C. C. Meneley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pau Wa Lu Middle School, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around C. C. Meneley Elementary School. On composite proficiency, C. C. Meneley Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. C. C. Meneley Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 458 (now 363). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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