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Enrollment
460
Middle
DISTRICT 352 · STATE 767
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOUGLAS·NCES 320009000422
Pau Wa Lu Middle School
701 Long Valley Rd, Gardnerville, NV 89460 · (775) 265-6100 · Douglas County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL460 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% of Nevada public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Nevada public middle schools
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 22.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
189 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 85%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 164 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 144 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 152 | 33% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Nevada SBAC 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
35.5%
NV avg 45.8% . +6.1pp since 2023
Math
22.4%
NV avg 35.6% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nevada schools, those numbers are about 46 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.5% | 22.4% |
| 2023-24 | 29.4% | 19.7% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Nevada SBAC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NV schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
28.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.7%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for Nevada schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pau Wa Lu Middle School
Pau Wa Lu Middle School's state test result (28.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pau Wa Lu Middle School this school | 460 | 41.1% | 28.8% |
| Eleanor Lemaire Junior High School Battle Mountain | 310 | 49.4% | 14.4% |
| Adobe Middle School Elko | 668 | 38.2% | 28.5% |
| Carson Valley Middle School Gardnerville | 591 | 29.3% | 36.9% |
| Flagview Intermediate School Elko | 674 | 34.7% | 27.1% |
| Yvonne Shaw Middle School SPARKS | 785 | 26.2% | 43.4% |
Matched among Nevada middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pau Wa Lu Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #47 of 94 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #48 of 98 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #54 of 98 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 460 | #83 of 113 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #18 of 94 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.0% | #57 of 94 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.1% | #81 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.6% | #25 of 68 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
460
+56 (+14%) vs 2020
-41% since 2000-01, when it was 780
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 10.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 460 | 24.5 | 18.8:1 | 41% (189) |
| 2023-24 | 459 | 26 | 17.6:1 | 42% (195) |
| 2022-23 | 481 | 24.3 | 19.8:1 | 36% (174) |
| 2020-21 | 404 | 40 | 10.1:1 | 37% (151) |
| 2017-18 | 579 | 29 | 20.0:1 | 39% (226) |
| 2015-16 | 589 | 31 | 19.0:1 | 39% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 600 | 32 | 18.8:1 | 39% (235) |
| 2000-01 | 780 | 39 | 20.0:1 | 27% (210) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pau Wa Lu Middle School.
About Pau Wa Lu Middle School
Pau Wa Lu Middle School is a small middle school. Its address is in Gardnerville, Nevada. In all, 460 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 40% below the 767-student average for middle schools in Nevada.
Douglas oversees Pau Wa Lu Middle School and 14 other schools, with 4,927 students in total.
More than half of the students at Pau Wa Lu Middle School are White (60%). The rest of enrollment is 27% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 4% Native American. Census estimates put the White share of Douglas County's population at about 80%. The diversity index for Pau Wa Lu Middle School is 56%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
For every teacher at Pau Wa Lu Middle School, there are about 18.8 students; the school has 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Nevada, 22.4:1, is higher. There are 189 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 41% of enrollment.
Among Nevada public middle schools, Pau Wa Lu Middle School outscored 36%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Pau Wa Lu Middle School falls short of its prediction by 16.9 points. The model expects 45.7% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Nevada; the school's rate is 28.8%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Douglas County show that the median household earns about $90,754 a year, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Douglas County, 16 public schools serve about 4,927 students.
Of the public schools around it, Pau Wa Lu Middle School is closest to G. L. Scarselli Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. There are 7 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 38.3% on proficiency, and Pau Wa Lu Middle School is below that at 28.8%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Distant.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 56 students, from 404 to 460. Federal data show the ratio rising from 10.1:1 to 18.8:1.
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Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
49,623
Census ACS
Median income
$90,754
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
16
4,927 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Douglas
- Douglas High SchoolHigh · 1,510 students
- Carson Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 591 students
- Minden Elementary SchoolElementary · 371 students
- Jacks Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 364 students
- C. C. Meneley Elementary SchoolElementary · 363 students
- G. L. Scarselli Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
Other schools in Gardnerville
- Carson Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 591 students
- C. C. Meneley Elementary SchoolElementary · 363 students
- G. L. Scarselli Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- Gardnerville Elementary SchoolElementary · 300 students
- Jacobsen High SchoolHigh · 24 students
Nearby schools
- G. L. Scarselli Elementary School0.1 mi · 305
- C. C. Meneley Elementary School1.1 mi · 363
- Gardnerville Elementary School3.8 mi · 300
- Carson Valley Middle School4.2 mi · 591
- ASPIRE Academy High School5.0 mi · 82
- Douglas Nevada Online5.0 mi · 5
Frequently asked questions
About Pau Wa Lu Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Pau Wa Lu Middle School?
Pau Wa Lu Middle School enrolls approximately 460 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Pau Wa Lu Middle School serve?
Pau Wa Lu Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Pau Wa Lu Middle School have?
Pau Wa Lu Middle School employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Pau Wa Lu Middle School?
Student demographics at Pau Wa Lu Middle School are roughly 60% White, 27% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Pau Wa Lu Middle School in?
Pau Wa Lu Middle School is part of Douglas.
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