Pau Wa Lu Middle School

Set in Gardnerville, Nevada, Pau Wa Lu Middle School is a cozy middle school, overseen by Douglas. It serves 460 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 40% leaner than the typical public school in Nevada, which averages around 767 students.

Douglas comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 4,927 students; Pau Wa Lu Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Pau Wa Lu Middle School shows that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Native American. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, Pau Wa Lu Middle School records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.4:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Pau Wa Lu Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Nevada public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.7%; Pau Wa Lu Middle School posts 28.8%, -16.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Douglas County reports that median household income runs about $90,754, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Douglas County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,927 students), Pau Wa Lu Middle School is one campus in the mix.

G. L. Scarselli Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Pau Wa Lu Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pau Wa Lu Middle School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 38.3%.

Pau Wa Lu Middle School operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Pau Wa Lu Middle School's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 579 (now 460). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 22% to 27%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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