Best Public Schools in Zip Code 89519

ZIP code 89519 in Reno, Nevada contains just two schools, both elementary: Caughlin Ranch Elementary (PK–5, 466 students) and Roy Gomm Elementary (K–5, 407 students), together enrolling 873 students. There are no middle, high, or alternative schools in the ZIP, so families here move on to other schools after fifth grade. Both schools belong to Washoe County, which ranks 4th of 12 districts statewide (67th percentile, 4 stars) — the same district, the same state tests, and nearly identical per-student spending, which makes comparing them unusually straightforward.

Both are among Nevada's strongest elementary schools. Caughlin Ranch Elementary ranks #1 of 376 elementary schools statewide in 2025-26 (100th percentile, 5 stars), after #3 in each of the two prior years. Roy Gomm Elementary ranks #19 of 376 (95th percentile, 5 stars), rebounding from #41 (89th percentile, 4 stars) a year earlier. In 2025-26 proficiency, Caughlin Ranch Elementary posts 82.8% in Math, 86.6% in Reading, and 56.6% in Science; Roy Gomm Elementary posts 70%, 71%, and 39.3%. Both far exceed district figures (37%, 44.4%, 26.3%) and state figures (36.2%, 45.2%, 25.5%). Roy Gomm Elementary is improving faster — gains in all three subjects, including +5.4 points in Reading — while Caughlin Ranch Elementary was roughly flat, though its scores leave little room to grow. Roy Gomm Elementary still trails Caughlin Ranch Elementary by 12.8 points in Math, 15.6 in Reading, and 17.3 in Science.

Science is the one subject where neither school reaches high proficiency, at both schools roughly 28–38 points below their fifth-grade Math and Reading results — a subject-level pattern rather than a school-specific problem. Attendance and poverty measures track the achievement gap: chronic absenteeism is 8.6% at Caughlin Ranch Elementary and 13.8% at Roy Gomm Elementary, both well under the Washoe County rate of 27.5% and the state rate of 25.5%, and free/reduced lunch is 6.87% versus 15.72%. Spending does not explain the difference between the schools — $13,128 per student at Caughlin Ranch Elementary versus $13,168 at Roy Gomm Elementary, with student-teacher ratios of 20.9 and 21.6.