Grass Valley Elementary

Grass Valley Elementary operates as an intimate elementary school in Winnemucca, Nevada, part of Humboldt. Current enrollment sits at 406 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Humboldt comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 3,233 students; Grass Valley Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Grass Valley Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 34% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the resource side, On paper, Grass Valley Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grass Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.6%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -0.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Humboldt County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $81,073 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Humboldt County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,233 students), Grass Valley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Winnemucca Grammar School, around 3.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Grass Valley Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Grass Valley Elementary's enrollment has edged down 28% since 2018, when it stood at 563 (now 406). Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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