Summary:
ZIP code 89445 (Winnemucca, Nevada) is served by two middle schools enrolling a combined 919 students in grades 5–8, both in the Humboldt district: Winnemucca Junior High School (grades 7–8, 481 students) and French Ford Middle School (grades 5–6, 438 students). The two schools split the middle grades rather than overlapping them, so each is best judged against its own grade-level benchmarks.
French Ford Middle School stands out for attendance and momentum: its chronic absenteeism of 21.4% is the best figure in this data set, 4.1 points below the state's 25.5% and 9.3 points below the district's 30.7%. It is the only school in the ZIP improving in all three tested subjects (math +4.5, reading +3.3, science +1.3 points) while the district declined in all three, and it posts the highest grade-level proficiency numbers here (5th-grade reading 38.1%, 6th-grade math 30.3%). Winnemucca Junior High School's bright spot is science at 27.8%, the only measure in this data set where either 89445 school beats the state (25.5%). Its caution flag is reading, which fell 11.8 points (42.1% to 30.3%) — the largest single-year drop in the data — alongside a three-year state rank slide from 77th of 153 (50th percentile, 3 stars) to 97th of 148 (34th percentile, 2 stars).
Overall, neither school reaches the Nevada average in math or reading, and reading is the deeper gap for both: Winnemucca is 14.9 points under the state, French Ford 10.2. Winnemucca spends more per student ($13,768 vs. $12,881) yet trails French Ford in both math (26.3% vs. 28.7%) and reading (30.3% vs. 35.0%), although a single-year snapshot of two schools cannot establish cause. Poverty data is unreported for both, so parents should read these results as a picture built from proficiency, growth, attendance and rank alone.
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