NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NV

Best-Resourced Schools in Gardnerville, NV

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6 public K-12 schools in Gardnerville from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
2,043
Students
45.2/100
Avg Resource Index
17:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gardnerville has more public-school enrollment than 13% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gardnerville's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Gardnerville's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Gardnerville lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 24 to 591 students, a 25-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 87%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
71st percentile
Teacher staffing
33rd percentile

Carson Valley Middle School accounts for 28.9% of all Gardnerville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Gardnerville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gardnerville school enrollment varies 25× across entities

Gardnerville school enrollment ranges from 24 students (lowest) to 591 students (highest), a spread of 567 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gardnerville operates one school district — a single-district system

Gardnerville's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gardnerville student-teacher ratio is 17.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Gardnerville is typically wider than the Gardnerville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Gardnerville Elementary School 51
2. Pau Wa Lu Middle School 50
3. Carson Valley Middle School 45
4. C. C. Meneley Elementary School 44
5. Jacobsen High School 44
6. G. L. Scarselli Elementary School 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Gardnerville

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Jacobsen High School 65.3/100
  2. 2 C. C. Meneley Elementary School 56.7/100
  3. 3 Pau Wa Lu Middle School 56.0/100
  4. 4 Gardnerville Elementary School 56.0/100
  5. 5 Carson Valley Middle School 51.7/100

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Which Gardnerville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Gardnerville Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gardnerville schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Gardnerville, NV? ▼

Gardnerville has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,043 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.