Flagview Intermediate School

Flagview Intermediate School is a 6-8 campus of medium-sized scale in Elko, Nevada, part of Elko, works with 674 students in grades 5 through 6.

Flagview Intermediate School is one of 35 schools operated by Elko, a district that hosts 9,546 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Flagview Intermediate School reports that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 45% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.4:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Elko County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Flagview Intermediate School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.2%; actual is 27.1%, a gap of -20.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Elko County shows median household earnings sit near $86,487, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Elko County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,984 students), of which Flagview Intermediate School is one.

Elko High School 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. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Flagview Intermediate School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.4%.

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

Five-year trend. Flagview Intermediate School's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 706 (now 674).

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