DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 901 Keele Drive, in RENO, Nevada, DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack middle school that instructs 1,027 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Washoe County. Enrollment runs roughly 34% bigger than the state mean of about 767.

Washoe County comprises 113 schools with combined enrollment of 63,412 students; DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 23% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.4:1, putting DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 28% of students at DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL 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 below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Across the wider county, Washoe County reports that median household earnings sit near $88,096, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

HUNTER LAKE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 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 DARREL SWOPE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 51.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 32%: 780 students in 2018 compared to 1,027 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.9:1 in 2018 to 27.8:1 in 2025.

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