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What's one thing ROLLAN MELTON ELEMENTARY gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
477
Elementary
DISTRICT 398 · STATE 480
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WASHOE COUNTY·NCES 320048000558
Rollan Melton Elementary
6575 Archimedes Lane, RENO, NV 89523 · (775) 746-7440 · Washoe County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL477 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 18.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
86 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 85%
Community
1
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 | 7 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
53%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
69.1%
NV avg 45.8% . -0.7pp since 2023
Math
70.3%
NV avg 35.6% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the Nevada SBAC, Nevada's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Nevada schools, those numbers are about 46 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Nevada SBAC results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.1% | 70.3% |
| 2023-24 | 69.8% | 69.0% |
% 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
58.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.9%
based on NV schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Rollan Melton Elementary
Rollan Melton Elementary's state test result (58.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rollan Melton Elementary this school | 477 | 18.0% | 58.5% |
| Elizabeth Lenz Elementary RENO | 366 | 15.3% | 59.3% |
| Spanish Springs Elementary SPARKS | 558 | 17.7% | 48.2% |
| Caughlin Ranch Elementary RENO | 466 | 6.9% | 73.6% |
| Jwood Raw Elementary School Reno | 602 | 17.1% | 56.4% |
| 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 Rollan Melton Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Nevada | In Washoe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #25 of 367 | #8 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.3% | #21 of 388 ▼ 4 | #9 of 75 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #38 of 390 ▼ 17 | #8 of 76 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 477 | #235 of 442 | #25 of 77 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.4:1 | #285 of 379 | #50 of 73 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.6% | #267 of 381 | #48 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.0% | #372 of 386 | #56 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.4% | #269 of 304 | #59 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
477
-52 (-10%) vs 2020
-16% since 2010-11, when it was 566
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 477 | 26 | 18.4:1 | 18% (86) |
| 2023-24 | 503 | 27 | 18.6:1 | 14% (71) |
| 2022-23 | 543 | 29.2 | 18.6:1 | 18% (96) |
| 2020-21 | 529 | 30 | 17.6:1 | 10% (55) |
| 2017-18 | 515 | 27 | 19.1:1 | 9% (47) |
| 2015-16 | 565 | 30 | 18.8:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2010-11 | 566 | 30 | 18.9:1 | 14% (81) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rollan Melton Elementary.
About Rollan Melton Elementary
Rollan Melton Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in RENO, Nevada. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 477 students.
The 114 schools in Washoe County enroll 63,959 students altogether, Rollan Melton Elementary among them.
White students are 66% of those enrolled at Rollan Melton Elementary. Other reported shares: 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 7% Asian. That is in line with Washoe County, where about 63% of residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 53%.
Its staff includes 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 18.4 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 18.1:1 average for elementary schools in Nevada. Rollan Melton Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 18%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Washoe County is 56%.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Rollan Melton Elementary is +7.6 points: 58.5% actual, 50.9% predicted.
American Community Survey estimates for Washoe County show that the median household earns about $88,096 a year, 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 has 127 public schools with about 68,279 students, including Rollan Melton Elementary.
About 0.9 miles separate Rollan Melton Elementary from the closest public school, Robert McQueen High School. The five-mile area around Rollan Melton Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Rollan Melton Elementary ranks 2nd of 6 nearby schools, at 58.5% versus a 44.7% average.
Rollan Melton Elementary is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
The school shrank from 529 students in 2020-21 to 477 in 2024-25.
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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
Nearby schools
- Robert McQueen High School0.9 mi · 1,727
- George Westergard Elementary1.3 mi · 461
- Billinghurst Middle School1.7 mi · 993
- Sarah Winnemucca Elementary1.7 mi · 496
- Grace Warner Elementary2.3 mi · 369
- Coral Academy Elementary-Northwest2.3 mi · 232
Frequently asked questions
About Rollan Melton ElementaryHow large is Rollan Melton Elementary?
Rollan Melton Elementary enrolls approximately 477 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Rollan Melton Elementary serve?
Rollan Melton Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Rollan Melton Elementary?
Approximately 18.4:1 students per teacher at Rollan Melton Elementary.
How diverse is Rollan Melton Elementary?
Rollan Melton Elementary reports a student body of 66% White, 16% Hispanic, 0% Black, 7% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Rollan Melton Elementary in?
Rollan Melton Elementary is part of Washoe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.