Summary:
Carson City offers families 10 schools — eight elementary and two middle schools — serving roughly 5,391 students, with no high schools or alternative schools in this group. Nine of the schools are in the Carson City district, which ranks 7th of 12 districts statewide (3 stars, 42nd percentile), while Jacks Valley Elementary School belongs to the higher-ranked Douglas district (3rd of 12, 4 stars, and above the state average in all subjects). Middle schools are much bigger, averaging 844 students, versus 463 at the elementaries. Across the area, math proficiency runs from 20.2% to 44.8% and reading from 29.2% to 46.7%, so the gap between the strongest and weakest schools is wide.
The clearest academic bright spots are Edith W. Fritsch Elementary, with the highest math (44.8%) and science (35.4%) scores and reading at the state average, and Al Seeliger Elementary, with the highest reading (46.7%) and tied-lowest chronic absenteeism (11.6%). Bordewich/Bray Elementary combines solid scores with 14.0% absenteeism. Jacks Valley Elementary School also posts 11.6% absenteeism and reading above the state average, and Carson Montessori has the second-highest science score (33.3%) with the lowest poverty rate and lowest spending per student.
At the other end, Empire Elementary ranks in the 8th percentile with 0 stars and the lowest math and reading scores, while Mark Twain Elementary has slipped to the 23rd percentile (1 star). Among middle schools, Carson Middle School outperforms Eagle Valley Middle School in every subject, yet has the highest chronic absenteeism in the group at 33.2%. Science is especially uneven — from 10.4% at Fremont Elementary up to 35.4% at Fritsch — and Jacks Valley's science score is suppressed by the state, so it is unknown rather than zero.
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