VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY

As an average-sized primary school in SPARKS, Nevada, VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY serves 419 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Washoe County.

Washoe County comprises 113 schools with combined enrollment of 63,412 students; VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 21% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 18.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Washoe County's rate of about 56%.

With demographic context factored in, VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 33.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Washoe County indicate median household earnings sit near $88,096, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Washoe County runs 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,279 students), of which VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: DESERT SKIES MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARY's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 419). Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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