Summary:
ZIP code 89441 in Sparks, Nevada contains five schools — three elementary, one middle, and one high school — serving 4,976 students. Four of them are in the Washoe County district, while one K–8 charter belongs to State Sponsored Charter Schools, the higher-ranked of the two district contexts at 2nd of 12 and the 83rd percentile. Enrollment is top-heavy: Spanish Springs High School alone has 2,131 students, about 42.8% of the total. Some state-reported values are suppressed and remain unknown.
Three schools stand out academically. Spanish Springs Elementary posts the ZIP's highest all-grade SBAC math (60.6%) and reading (62.8%), plus the lowest student/teacher ratio at 17.7 — and the highest per-student spending at $15,092. Alyce Taylor Elementary has improved steadily to the 80th percentile, with 58.4% math and 58.8% reading. Pinecrest Academy of Northern Nevada ranks highest at the 86th percentile and pairs strong science results with the lowest chronic absenteeism (13.3%) and the lowest per-student spending ($8,334) in the ZIP.
The secondary schools are more uneven. Yvonne Shaw Middle School has slipped to the 49th percentile, with math (31.8%) and reading (41.8%) below district and state, though its 8th-grade science (34.4%) edges past both. Spanish Springs High School graduates 88.9% of students, above district and state, and improved sharply in ACT Math (32.1%) and ACT English (64.2%); however, it carries the ZIP's highest chronic absenteeism at 34.2%, and its EOC Science End-of-Course score of 18% trails district and state, with 9th- and 10th-grade science results suppressed. Absenteeism rises sharply at the secondary level, from 13.3%–16.5% in the elementary and charter schools to 25.5% in the middle school and 34.2% in the high school.
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