Jackpot Jr High School

Jackpot Jr High School is an intermediate school of minimally staffed scale in Jackpot, Nevada, part of Elko, hosting 14 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 98% smaller than the state mean of about 767.

Elko runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 9,546 students. Jackpot Jr High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jackpot Jr High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 29% White, 14% multiracial, 7% Native American. By comparison, Elko County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Elko County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Elko County put median household earnings sit near $86,487, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Jackpot Jr High School is one of 38 public schools in Elko County (combined enrollment of about 9,984 students).

The closest other public school is Jackpot Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 4 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Jackpot Jr High School's enrollment has edged down 36% since 2018, when it stood at 22 (now 14). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 91% to 50%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.