Jacks Valley Elementary School

Located at 701 Jacks Valley Road, in Carson City, Nevada, Jacks Valley Elementary School is a small K-5 school that enrolls 364 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Douglas. By comparison, Nevada's public schools average about 480 students each, so Jacks Valley Elementary School sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Douglas runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 4,927 students. Jacks Valley Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Jacks Valley Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 36% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Jacks Valley Elementary School logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.1:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Douglas County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jacks Valley Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.1%; this one delivers 31.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate median household earnings sit near $90,754, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Douglas County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,927 students), of which Jacks Valley Elementary School is one.

Al Seeliger Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Jacks Valley Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jacks Valley Elementary School at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.6%.

Jacks Valley Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Jacks Valley Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 364). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 32% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Jacks Valley Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.