Gerlach K–12 School Explained
Gerlach K-12 School is a public K-12 school in Gerlach, Nevada. A part of the Washoe County School District, its attendance boundary includes Gerlach and Empire.[1]
It is about 110miles north of Reno.[2]
It includes a branch of the Washoe County Library System.[3]
History
The facility was previously Gerlach High School, a grade 6-12 school as of 2001.[4] [5] It opened in 1931, and got a new building in 1955 as the original building was destroyed by a fire.[6] The fire occurred in January 1955.[7] In the 1970s, the school's grade spread was 5-12 and it had a teacher-student ratio at 1 to 9. By 1976, the school consolidated all grade levels in a single building to have more efficient use of employees, as the area population had declined.[2] It was renovated circa the late 1990s.[3]
Ernest M. Johnson Elementary School, initially an elementary school in Empire, moved to the Gerlach High site in Gerlach in 2001.[8] By 2000, the school's address was already in Gerlach.[9] It was to be housed in an eight classroom wing attached to the high school facility that was to open in fall 2002.[3]
Johnson became a K-12 school in 2011.[10]
Student body
Prior to fall 2000, enrollment was at 125 for the entire K-12 facility, with 55 students at Johnson Elementary and 70 students at Gerlach High. By that time, the schools had one aide for English as a second language (ESL) purposes as an increasing number of students had that classification. The students were children of employees at Empire Farms and U.S. Gypsum.[3] At one point, enrollment was 80, and there were 20 employees. By 2016, U.S. Gypsum had curtailed operations, and enrollment was down to eight with three full-time employees along with some part-time employees.[11]
There are different ethnic groups among the student body, majority are whites followed by Hispanic/Latino.[12]
Operations
Washoe County Public Schools maintains faculty housing through mobile homes in a way to retain staff.[3]
External links
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Notes and References
- Web site: Gerlach K-12 School. Washoe County School District. 2021-03-20. Welcome to the Gerlach K-12 School! [...] serving the communities of Gerlach and Empire. .
- Book: Payments in Lieu of Taxes: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session on H.R. 9719. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1976. 133.
- Web site: O'Driscoll. Holly. Education: Communties [sic], schools closely linked. https://archive.today/20210109051122/http://acorn.rgj.com/realestate2/neighborhoods/northwashoe/education.html. January 9, 2021. Nevada Living Magazine. Reno Gazette-Journal. 2021-03-20. live.
- Web site: High Schools. Washoe County School District. 2001-04-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20010424123236/http://www.washoe.k12.nv.us/schools/schools.php?level=high. 2021-03-19. April 24, 2001.
- Web site: Gerlach K-12 Schools. 4 October 2021. Visit Gerlach. July 30, 2013.
- Web site: A History of Schools. Washoe County School District. 2021-03-19. 195. - The document states the fire occurred in 1954 but this is contradicted by the newspaper article.
- Web site: Gerlach's Only School Building is Destroyed by Early Morning Fire. Nevada State Journal. 1955-01-12. 2021-03-19.
- Web site: A History of Schools. Washoe County School District. 2021-03-19. 81. - Despite the statement about the Gerlach campus opening in 2003, it states the addition was built in 2001 and the Johnson School address changed to Gerlach, NV by 2001
- Web site: Elementary Schools. Washoe County School District. 2000-08-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20000823055446/http://wcsd.aztech-cs.com:80/schools/elementary.html. 2021-03-20. August 23, 2000.
- Web site: A History of Schools. Washoe County School District. 2021-03-19. 237.
- Web site: Kane. Jenny. SOLD: $11.38M quasi-ghost town in Burning Man's backyard. Reno Gazette Journal. 2016-06-03. 2021-03-20.
- Web site: Gerlach K-12. October 4, 2021. .
