Middle · Nevada
Desert Skies Middle School
Free meals for allDesert Skies Middle School, a public middle school in Sun Valley, Nevada: grades 6–8, 875 students, 19.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Washoe County.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 875
- Teachers (FTE)
- 46.0
- Students per teacher
- 19.0
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 69% of middle schools in Nevada
Median 21.2 · 111 schools compared
More students per teacher than 83% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 53% of middle schools in Nevada
Median 785 · 117 schools compared
Larger than 84% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- Washoe County
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Washoe County.
Location
- Address
- 7550 Donatello Dr, Sun Valley, NV 89433
- Phone
- (775)674-4915
- City or town
- Sun Valley
- County
- Washoe County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6–8 | 1,206 | 25.1 | |
| 6–8 | 785 | 23.8 | |
Sparks Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 622 | 19.4 |
George L. Dilworth S.T.E.M AcademyFree meals for all | 6–8 | 613 | 17.5 |
Fred W. Traner Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 530 | 18.0 |
Lou Mendive Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 964 | 21.0 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
NCES 320048000932