West Wendover Middle School

As a very small 6-8 campus in West Wendover, Nevada, West Wendover Middle School serves 194 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Elko. Compared to the state average of about 767 students per school, that is 75% below typical.

Within Elko, which oversees 35 schools and 9,546 students, West Wendover Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, West Wendover Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, West Wendover Middle School reports 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. The state averages around 22.4:1, 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, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Elko County's rate of about 48%.

After controlling for student poverty, West Wendover Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 20.8%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Elko County put median household earnings sit near $86,487, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Elko County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,984 students), West Wendover Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: West Wendover High School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, West Wendover Middle School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.1%.

West Wendover Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Wendover Middle School has climbed 10%, going from 176 students in 2018 to 194 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 29% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 35.2:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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