Spring Creek Middle School

Spring Creek Middle School is an intermediate school of reasonably sized scale in Spring Creek, Nevada, operated by Elko, enrolling 708 students in grades 6 through 8.

Spring Creek Middle School is one of 35 schools operated by Elko, a district that educates 9,546 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Spring Creek Middle School records that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Elko County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Spring Creek Middle School shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.4:1, putting Spring Creek Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Elko County (around 48%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Spring Creek Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.8%; this one comes in at 27.2%, -22.6 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Elko County indicate median household income runs about $86,487, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Spring Creek Middle School is one of 38 public schools in Elko County (combined enrollment of about 9,984 students).

Sage Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Spring Creek Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 677 students in 2018 compared to 708 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Spring Creek Middle School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.