LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY

LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY operates as a cozy K-5 school in RENO, Nevada, run under Washoe County. Current enrollment sits at 321 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% leaner than the state mean of about 480.

LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY is one of 113 schools operated by Washoe County, a district that teaches 63,412 students overall.

On demographics, LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY reports that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 22% White, 7% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, On paper, LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Washoe County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 18.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Washoe County shows median household earnings sit near $88,096, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Washoe County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,279 students), LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

E. OTIS VAUGHN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LIBBY BOOTH ELEMENTARY has shrank 26%, going from 434 students in 2018 to 321 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 59% to 53% over that span.

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