ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 600 Apple Street, in RENO, Nevada, ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact elementary-level community that caters to 325 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Washoe County. That puts it 32% below the typical public school in Nevada, which averages around 480 students.

ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 113 schools operated by Washoe County, a district that hosts 63,412 students overall.

In terms of who attends, ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 10% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Washoe County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Washoe County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Nevada public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.5%; ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 12.3%, -20.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Washoe County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,096 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Washoe County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,279 students), ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is EARL WOOSTER HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ECHO LODER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 20.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 41%: 555 students in 2018 compared to 325 in 2025.

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