Summary:
ZIP code 89441 contains exactly one high school: Spanish Springs High School, a large public school in Sparks, Nevada serving grades 9–12 with 2,131 students. It belongs to the Washoe County district, which is rated 4 stars, ranked 4th of 12 in Nevada, and sits in the 67th percentile. Because no other high school shares this ZIP code, there is no local peer to compare it with directly; the most useful comparisons are against district and state averages.
The school's clearest strengths are college-readiness and completion. In 2025–2026, 11th-grade ACT English proficiency reached 64.2% — the highest school-level test score in this data set — and ACT Math reached 32.1%; both are well above district and state figures, and both rose sharply from the prior year (English up 12.9 points, Math up 9.3 points). The 2024–2025 graduation rate of 88.9% also exceeds the district's 83.3% and the state's 85.4%, and the free/reduced-price lunch rate of 16.52% is relatively low. Per-student spending is $10,924, and the student-teacher ratio is 26.1, which is high.
Two areas need attention. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 is 34.2% — roughly one in three students — which is 6.7 points above the district and 8.7 points above the state. Science is the other warning sign: 2025–2026 EOC Science End of Course proficiency is 18%, down from 23% the year before and below the district's 25.2% and the state's 26.5%. The 9th- and 10th-grade science values for 2025–2026 are suppressed, so the full science picture is incomplete. Overall, the school has held a 3-star rank for three reported years, placing it around the 49th–54th percentile statewide — solid, but mid-pack in a strong district.
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