Humboldt County School District


The Humboldt County School District is a public school district serving K−12 education in Humboldt County, Nevada, in the northwestern part of the state.
Its headquarters are in Winnemucca.
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History

The district had 1,547 students in the 1963–1964 school year, an increase by 97 from the preceding school year.
In 1978 there was a group of parents in the Happy Creek/Leonard Creek/Pahute Meadows region, served by a privately operated school, asking for the county district to open a public school for the area.

Schools

K–12 schools

High schools (9–12)

K-8 schools

  • Denio School
  • * It is a two-room schoolhouse. The school lacks a full service cafeteria. Its nature, as of 2004, allows teachers to have informal, flexible scheduling. It had 20 students in the 1963–1964 school year. The enrollment in December 2004 was the same number as the 1963–1964 figure.
  • Kings River School
  • * It had 15 students in the 1963–1964 school year.
  • Orovada School
  • * In 1954 the Orovada School had 22 students. A new building, designed by Alegre and Hanson and built by A.T. Costa, opened in 1958. The two classroom facility and two teacher apartment facilities were made of pumice. In 1966 some parents stated that the district needed a new heating system in the school and they would prevent their children from attending if this was not done.
  • Paradise Valley School
  • * It had 27 students in the 1963–1964 school year.

Junior high schools (7–8)

Middle schools (5–6)

Elementary schools (K–4)