Summary:
The Douglas area serves 13 schools — seven elementary, two middle, and four high — with 4,918 students enrolled across 2,112 elementary, 1,051 middle, and 1,755 high school students, and the Douglas district is rated 3rd of 12 districts in Nevada at the 75th percentile with 4 stars.
A top performer is Pinon Hills Elementary School, which ranks 41st of 376 elementary schools in the 89th percentile with 4 stars and posts 58.0% math and 78.2% reading proficiency, plus the lowest free/reduced lunch rate at 20.31%. Minden Elementary School (77th percentile, 4 stars) has 50.8% math and 57.3% reading and the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 10.3%. G. L. Scarselli Elementary School reaches 58.3% reading, and Zephyr Cove Elementary School (81st percentile) posts 46.0% math and 59.2% reading but 26.2% chronic absenteeism. Carson Valley Middle School exceeds state averages in math, reading, and science. Douglas High School, the largest school with 1,510 students, has a 91.3% graduation rate, 35.0% ACT math, and 59.3% ACT English. George Whittell High School enrolls 139 students with a 91.6% graduation rate, a 5.6 student-teacher ratio, and 53.5% End-of-Course science, though its $28,390 per-student spending is the highest and chronic absenteeism is 29.8%.
Schools to watch: ASPIRE Academy High School enrolls 82 students with 100% free/reduced lunch, 61.5% chronic absenteeism, and a 48.6% graduation rate, and its test scores are suppressed. Pau Wa Lu Middle School posts 25.3% math and 31.8% reading, both below district and state, though its 36.9% science is above both. C. C. Meneley Elementary School is below district and state in all three subjects, and its science fell from 42.3% to 21.5%. Jacks Valley Elementary School improved from the 30th to 55th percentile. Where values are suppressed, treat them as unknown rather than as evidence of weakness.
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