Washoe County School District
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The Washoe County School District (WCSD) is a public school district providing public education to students in Washoe County, Nevada, including the cities of Reno, Sparks, Verdi, Incline Village, and Gerlach. As of September 2004, the school district had 62,098 students enrolled.[1] It is the second largest school district in the state of Nevada.[2] The school board typically meets once a week, generally on Tuesdays. The first and third Tuesdays are generally workshop-style meetings while the second and fourth Tuesdays are more typical meetings of a legislative body.
The Board of Trustees appoint a superintendent who is in charge of the day-to-day operations of the school district. The current superintendent is Paul Dugan who was appointed interim superintendent in July 2004 and was selected as the permanent superintendent in January 2005. The organizational structure of the district has recently changed. F U Currently, there are three additional superintendents in charge of specific areas (elementary education, secondary education, and operations). There are also four assistant superintendents (for human resources, high school education, student support services, and public policy, accountability, and management).
[edit] Schools
The WCSD currently has 61 elementary schools, a special education school, 15 middle schools, 12 comprehensive high schools, Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) High School, Washoe High School (an alternative school) and the Regional Technical Institute.
In the WCSD, elementary schools typically include kindergarten through sixth grade, middle schools include seventh grade and eighth grade, and high schools include ninth grade through twelfth grade. A notable exception is Damonte Ranch High School and Middle School which includes seventh grade through twelfth grade[3].
List of schools
- WCSD has eleven public high schools: Damonte Ranch High School, Galena High School, Hug High School, I Can Do Anything Charter High School, Robert McQueen High School, North Valleys High School, Regional Technical Institute High School, Reno High School, Truckee Meadows Community College High School, Washoe High School, and Earl Wooster High School, Edward C. Reed High School, Spanish Springs High School, and Sparks High School.
- WCSD has 16 middle schools: Billinghurst, Clayton, Cold Springs Middle School ,Damonte Ranch, Dilworth, Gerlach, Incline, Mendive, O'Brien, Pine, Shaw, Sparks, Swope, Traner, Vaughn, and Washoe.
- WCSD elementary schools are Allen, Anderson, Beasley, Jesse Beck, Bennett, Booth, Brown, Cannan, Caughlin Ranch, Corbett, Desert Heights, Diedrichsen, Dodson, Donner Springs, Double Diamond, Drake, Duncan, Dunn, Elmcrest, Gomes, Roy Gomm, Greenbrae, Hidden Valley, Huffaker, Hunsberger, Hunter Lake, Johnson, Juniper, Lemmon Valley, Elizabeth Lenz, Lincoln Park, Loder, Mathews, Maxwell, Melton, Mitchell, Moss, Mount Rose, Natchez, Palmer, Peavine, Picollo Special Education School, Pleasant Valley, Risley, Sepulveda, Sierra Vista, Silver Lake, Alice Smith, Kate Smith, Smithridge, Spanish Springs, Stead, Sun Valley, Taylor, Towles, Van Gorder, Verdi, Veterans Memorial, Warner, Westergard, Whitehead, and Winnemucca.
