The Humboldt County School District is a public school district serving K−12 education in Humboldt County, Nevada, - Text list. in the northwestern part of the state.
Its headquarters are in Winnemucca.
History
The district had 1,547 students in the 1963–1964 school year, an increase by 97 from the preceding school year. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.
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. - Clipping from Newspaper.com. Text detail A and Text detail B
Schools K–12 schools
McDermitt Combined School (McDermitt)
High schools (9–12) Albert M. Lowry High School (Winnemucca) Previously known as Humboldt County High School, it had 360 students in the 1963–1964 school year.
K-8 schools K-8 schools include: Denio School (Denio) 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. - Clipping of first and of second page at Newspapers.com. It had 20 students in the 1963–1964 school year. The enrollment in December 2004 was the same number as the 1963–1964 figure. In 2025 the board of trustees closed the Denio school since it had two students, which the board felt were too few. The board reopened it in 2026 after area families with a total of 11 children expressed that they wanted a school. Kings River School (Kings River Valley) It had 15 students in the 1963–1964 school year. Orovada School (Orovada) In 1954 the Orovada School had 22 students. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. A new building, designed by Alegre and Hanson and built by A.T. Costa, opened in 1958. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. The two classroom facility and two teacher apartment facilities were made of pumice. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. 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. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. Paradise Valley School (Paradise Valley) It had 27 students in the 1963–1964 school year.
Junior high schools (7–8)
Winnemucca Junior High School (Winnemucca)
Middle schools (5–6) French Ford Middle School (Winnemucca)
Elementary schools (K–4)
Grass Valley Elementary School (Winnemucca) Sonoma Heights Elementary School (Winnemucca) In 1957 the plans to design the school, which were to be done by Alegre, Igaz and Harrison, a Reno, Nevada company, were underway. - See Clipping at Newspapers.com. It had 438 students in the 1963–1964 school year, and at the time it covered Kindergarten through 3rd Grade. Winnemucca Grammar School (Winnemucca) It had 456 students in the 1963–1964 school year.
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