EDWARD L. PINE MIDDLE SCHOOL

EDWARD L. PINE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier middle schools in RENO, Nevada, part of Washoe County, with 740 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

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

Demographically, EDWARD L. PINE MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 15% White, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Washoe County's rate of about 56%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EDWARD L. PINE MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.5%; this one comes in at 16.8%, -15.7 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Washoe County) shows that median household income runs about $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. EDWARD L. PINE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 127 public schools in Washoe County (combined enrollment of about 68,279 students).

Nearest neighbor: SMITHRIDGE S.T.E.M. ACADEMY, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EDWARD L. PINE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EDWARD L. PINE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 37.5%.

EDWARD L. PINE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 1,010 students in 2018 compared to 740 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 38% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 25.5:1 in 2025.

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