Enrollment
289
Elementary
DISTRICT 398 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WASHOE COUNTY·NCES 320048000237
Pleasant Valley Elementary
405 SURREY DRIVE, RENO, NV 89511 · (775) 849-0255 · Washoe County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL289 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 77% of Nevada public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 18.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
71 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 85%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 9 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
67.1%
NV avg 45.8% . +3.3pp since 2023
Math
63.1%
NV avg 35.6% . +9.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.1% | 63.1% |
| 2023-24 | 63.8% | 53.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Nevada SBAC. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.4%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Nevada schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Nevada's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Pleasant Valley Elementary
Pleasant Valley Elementary's state test result (53.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Valley Elementary this school | 289 | 24.6% | 53.0% |
| Spring Creek Elementary School Spring Creek | 400 | 21.8% | 32.0% |
| Pinon Hills Elementary School Minden | 256 | 20.3% | 59.6% |
| Verdi Elementary VERDI | 256 | 11.3% | 57.0% |
| Carson Montessori Carson City | 279 | 21.9% | 36.3% |
| Roy Gomm Elementary RENO | 407 | 15.7% | 55.7% |
Matched among Nevada elementary 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 Pleasant Valley Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Washoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #46 of 367 | #15 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.1% | #39 of 388 ▲ 27 | #14 of 75 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.1% | #48 of 390 ▲ 1 | #11 of 76 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 289 | #357 of 442 | #60 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #174 of 379 | #25 of 73 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.3% | #370 of 381 | #72 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.6% | #357 of 386 | #51 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.8% | #36 of 304 | #13 of 64 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
289
-42 (-13%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 446
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 289 | 17.6 | 16.4:1 | 25% (71) |
| 2023-24 | 332 | 19 | 17.5:1 | 17% (58) |
| 2022-23 | 358 | 18.8 | 19.0:1 | 18% (66) |
| 2020-21 | 331 | 21 | 15.8:1 | 16% (53) |
| 2017-18 | 457 | 24.5 | 18.6:1 | 16% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 402 | 22 | 18.3:1 | 15% (59) |
| 2010-11 | 389 | 19 | 20.5:1 | 16% (62) |
| 2000-01 | 425 | 20 | 21.3:1 | 15% (62) |
| 1990-91 | 446 | 20 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Valley Elementary.
About Pleasant Valley Elementary
Pleasant Valley Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school for students in RENO, Nevada. In all, 289 students attend the school in pre-K through 5. The school is 40% below the average for elementary schools in Nevada.
Washoe County is responsible for 114 schools, Pleasant Valley Elementary included, with 63,959 students in all.
A large majority of enrollment at Pleasant Valley Elementary is White, at 84%. Other reported shares: 12% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. Washoe County's residents are about 63% White, 22 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pleasant Valley Elementary scores 27%.
The school had 17.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 16.4:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Nevada is 18.1:1. The school reported 25% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is lower than the 56% average for public schools in Washoe County.
Pleasant Valley Elementary earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 77% of Nevada public elementary schools.
Pleasant Valley Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 53.0% is 3.6 points above the 49.4% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
American Community Survey estimates for Washoe County show that median household income comes to about $88,096, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Washoe County counts 127 public schools with about 68,279 students.
Of the public schools around it, Pleasant Valley Elementary is closest to Galena High School, about 2.5 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 5 other public schools. On average proficiency, Pleasant Valley Elementary is 6th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Pleasant Valley Elementary is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The school's student count fell 13% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Washoe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
497,200
Census ACS
Median income
$88,096
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
127
68,279 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Washoe County
- North Valleys High SchoolHigh · 2,307 students
- Spanish Springs High SchoolHigh · 2,131 students
- Edward C. Reed High SchoolHigh · 2,092 students
- Procter R. Hug High SchoolHigh · 2,008 students
- Reno High SchoolHigh · 1,741 students
- Damonte Ranch High SchoolHigh · 1,738 students
Other schools in RENO
- North Valleys High SchoolHigh · 2,307 students
- Reno High SchoolHigh · 1,741 students
- Damonte Ranch High SchoolHigh · 1,738 students
- Robert McQueen High SchoolHigh · 1,727 students
- Galena High SchoolHigh · 1,345 students
- Earl Wooster High SchoolHigh · 1,338 students
Other Pleasant Valley Elementary schools
15 other US public schools in 13 states are named Pleasant Valley Elementary. Pleasant Valley Elementary is the 10th largest of the 16.
- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolParma, OH · 971 students
- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolKunkletown, PA · 899 students
- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolMcMurray, PA · 495 students
- Pleasant Valley ElementaryNovato, CA · 464 students
- Pleasant Valley Elementary SchoolJacksonville, AL · 458 students
Nearby schools
- Galena High School2.5 mi · 1,345
- Doral Academy of Northern Nevada2.7 mi · 996
- Marce Herz Middle School3.9 mi · 957
- Ted Hunsberger Elementary3.9 mi · 566
- Brown Elementary4.6 mi · 514
- Elizabeth Lenz Elementary5.2 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Valley ElementaryHow large is Pleasant Valley Elementary?
Pleasant Valley Elementary enrolls approximately 289 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Pleasant Valley Elementary serve?
Pleasant Valley Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Pleasant Valley Elementary?
Approximately 16.4:1 students per teacher at Pleasant Valley Elementary.
How diverse is Pleasant Valley Elementary?
Pleasant Valley Elementary reports a student body of 84% White, 12% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Pleasant Valley Elementary in?
Pleasant Valley Elementary is part of Washoe County.
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