White Pine Middle School

White Pine Middle School is a 6-8 campus of micro-enrollment scale in Ely, Nevada, one of the schools within White Pine County School District, instructing 233 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 767 students per school, that is 70% leaner than typical.

Within White Pine County School District, which oversees 9 schools and 1,256 students, White Pine Middle School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, White Pine Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.4:1, putting White Pine Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at White Pine Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than White Pine County's rate of about 90%.

With demographic context factored in, White Pine Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for White Pine County put the typical household earns roughly $72,865 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across White Pine County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,422 students), White Pine Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Steptoe Valley High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), White Pine Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 32.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. White Pine Middle School's enrollment has increased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 213 (now 233). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 17% to 21% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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