Summary:
Zip code 89506 in Reno, Nevada is served by exactly one high school: North Valleys High School, a large comprehensive campus serving grades 9–12 with 2,307 students, part of the Washoe County district. Because it is the only high school in the zip code, there is no local comparison to make — the meaningful benchmarks are the district and the state. The Washoe County district rates above the Nevada midpoint (4 of 12 districts, 67th percentile, 4 stars), while North Valleys High School has earned three consecutive 1-star ratings and sits in the bottom fifth of Nevada high schools (86th of 105, 18th percentile in 2025‑26, up from 10th percentile the year before).
The strongest result is graduation: 83.4% in 2024‑25, essentially matching the district's 83.3% and close to the state's 85.4%. Test scores, however, tell a different story. Only 14.1% of 11th graders were proficient in ACT Math (district 26.9%, state 22.6%) and 37% in ACT English (district 51.3%, state 50.8%). Both subjects improved sharply from the prior year and faster than the district and state did, narrowing the gap. Science moved the other way: End-of-Course proficiency fell to 11.9% while district and state rates rose; two other science results for 2025‑26 are suppressed by the state and are unknown, not zero.
Chronic absenteeism is 49.2% — nearly double the district's 27.5% and the state's 25.5%, and by far the school's most striking outlier. Class sizes run about 25 students per teacher, per-student spending is $10,801 (2023‑24, with no district or state figure for comparison), and free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so poverty context is unavailable. In short: a very large school, graduating students at the district norm, improving in English and math but from a low base, and losing ground in science while half its students are chronically absent.
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