Summary
Robert Mitchell Elementary is a PK–5 neighborhood school at 1216 Prater Way in Sparks, NV, serving 336 students as part of the Washoe County School District. Statewide, it ranks 276th of 376 schools (27th percentile, 1 star) for 2025-26, the same position it held the year before, and in ten years of reported rankings it has never finished above the 45th percentile. Every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, the highest possible poverty indicator.
Locally, though, Mitchell sits in the middle of a weak cluster rather than at the bottom: five of ten nearby schools rank below it, including Lincoln Park (19%), Greenbrae (21%), Agnes Risley (17%), Rita Cannan (15%) and Bernice Mathews (2%). Its 2025-26 math proficiency of 25.8% and reading of 34.0% are both near the peer median and third among the nine traditional neighborhood schools in the district. Mitchell spends $17,114 per student — more than nine of the ten comparison schools — and Florence Drake Elementary, 1.2 miles away, has the same poverty rate, nearly identical spending ($17,219) and a larger class ratio (18.0 vs. 16.1), yet posts 62.5% proficiency in both subjects. Mater Academy of Northern Nevada, a charter school, posts 41.2% math and 44.1% reading on $11,315 per student.
Chronic absenteeism is Mitchell's sharpest weak spot at 29.5%, above the district (27.5%) and state (25.5%) and higher than every nearby school except Lincoln Park (30.2%). Agnes Risley Elementary posts nearly identical scores with roughly half the absenteeism (15.7%). Two data points are suppressed by the state for privacy — science and 3rd-grade math — so the STEM pipeline and early math foundation cannot be evaluated. Mitchell's math improved from 18.1% to 28.4% before slipping to 25.8%, widening its gap to the district. The bottom line: a high-poverty school holding the middle of its local cluster, with attendance the clearest room for improvement.
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