KENDYL DEPOALI MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 9300 WILBUR MAY PARKWAY, in RENO, Nevada, KENDYL DEPOALI MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized 6-8 campus that teaches 921 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Washoe County. That puts it 20% bigger than the typical public school in Nevada, which averages around 767 students.

Within Washoe County, which oversees 113 schools and 63,412 students, KENDYL DEPOALI MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, KENDYL DEPOALI MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, KENDYL DEPOALI MIDDLE SCHOOL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.6:1. The state averages around 22.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Washoe County's rate of about 56%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KENDYL DEPOALI MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, Washoe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,096 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washoe County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,279 students), KENDYL DEPOALI MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

NICK POULAKIDAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KENDYL DEPOALI MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KENDYL DEPOALI MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked down 25%, going from 1,228 students in 2018 to 921 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 67% to 51%. Class-load math has grew: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 25.6:1 in 2025.

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