Spring Creek High School

Spring Creek High School operates as a reasonably sized high school in Spring Creek, Nevada, one of the schools within Elko. Current enrollment sits at 880 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Within Elko, which oversees 35 schools and 9,546 students, Spring Creek High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Spring Creek High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 72.6:1 average. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Elko County's rate of about 48%.

Across the wider county, Elko County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,487 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Elko County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,984 students), of which Spring Creek High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Spring Creek Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spring Creek High School has showed little movement, going from 867 students in 2018 to 880 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 88% to 81% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

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