VERDI ELEMENTARY

As a compact elementary-level community in VERDI, Nevada, VERDI ELEMENTARY instructs 256 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Washoe County. That puts it 47% smaller than the typical public school in Nevada, which averages around 480 students.

Within Washoe County, which oversees 113 schools and 63,412 students, VERDI ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, VERDI ELEMENTARY records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 18.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 11% of students at VERDI ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Washoe County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, VERDI ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 57.0%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Washoe County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,096 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washoe County runs 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,279 students), of which VERDI ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: BILLINGHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 5.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VERDI ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 50.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 286 students in 2018 compared to 256 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for VERDI ELEMENTARY typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.