B D Billinghurst Middle School

Reno, NV 89523

Phone: (775) 746-5870
Fax: (775) 746-5875
District: Washoe County School District

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GreatSchools Rating

public • Grades 6-8 • 993 students

B D Billinghurst Middle School, located in Reno, Nevada, serves grades 6-8 in the Washoe County School District. It is among the few public middle schools in Nevada to receive a distinguished GreatSchools Rating of 9 out of 10.

B D Billinghurst Middle School is a public school located in Reno, NV. 993 students attend B D Billinghurst Middle School.

School Ratings

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Test Scores 7/10 The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 Criterion Referenced Tests (CRT) data from Nevada Department of Education, and using 2025 Smarter Balanced Assessment data from Nevada Department of Education.
Academic Progress 4/10 The Academic Progress Rating is a growth proxy rating based on a model using unmatched cohorts, or school-level data instead of student-level data. The Academic Progress Rating was created using 2024 and 2025 Smarter Balanced Assessment data from Nevada Department of Education, using 2024 and 2025 Criterion Referenced Tests (CRT) data from Nevada Department of Education, and using 2023 demographic data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Worrisome patterns of chronic student absenteeism have been identified.

Posted: April 21, 2026

This school is actually fun itÂ’s safe there is no fights less staff

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I like this school I would recommend this school.

Posted: April 4, 2025

I need to get this school up to 4 stars so we can shave the principles head.

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Posted: July 9, 2023

terrible school do not send your kid here

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Posted: October 2, 2020

We never really had a problem with this so I cannot speak to it.

Posted: October 2, 2020

100% on point and would highly recommend this school.

Posted: October 2, 2020

Teachers are very understanding and willing to work with your schedules.

Posted: October 2, 2020

We absolutely love the teachers here. They care about all the students and work to make everyone feel welcome.

Posted: October 2, 2020

I would say that this is one of the strong points for this school the educators and culture of the school inspire leaders amongst their students.

Posted: October 2, 2020

Could be a little better. I emailed the Principal and did not hear back for weeks. Other than that the VP and counselors are amazing.

Posted: October 2, 2020

One of our kids had a learning disability and it was noticed early and handled with expertise and care.

Posted: March 22, 2020

My kids had a great experience at this school. Their teachers were wonderful.

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Posted: August 16, 2016

Billinghurst has gone so down hill since Ms. CUTLER has taken over. Bullying is out of control! There are so many fights there daily. Teachers are not teaching, they are telling kids just to look up answers on Google. Teachers are even Bullying kids. I took my concern to Ms. CUTLER and she looked at my daughter in disbelief and did NOTHING!! My daughter who was a straight A student and never in trouble, was being sexually harassed by a large group of students and nothing at all was done. BillingHurst is a joke now with Ms. Cutler. She couldn't even control 8th grade graduation. If you have a choice go to another school until she is gone!

Posted: December 15, 2015

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Since when is choir practice more important than nutrition? Last Tuesday was the 4th time Tanner has gone without being able to eat his lunch. Everyone is sensitive to those with peanut allergies of which I do understand however, my son suffers in this case because peanut better is the only protein he eats. So what about accommodating him?
why is it that a teacher can sit in her class and eat Doritos at 9:00 in the morning in front of the kids however, the kids {even though they are hungry too} can only eat at a certain time?
Since when does having to use the bathroom lower your GPA?
When a child suddenly has to make a bowel movement but can't because his teachers tells him that he will receive an infraction?...so he has to sit there for an hour until school lets out??? I guarantee you if that teacher had to use the bathroom she would not have stood there for an hour holding it. These are simple living functions, functions that we do to survive as people...eating and using the bathroom that for some reason are unable to be met at this school.

Posted: December 15, 2015

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This is an email I sent to Billinghurst middle school this morning...you can get the gist of my opinion about this school, the kids, the teachers and the admin by reading my letter...
Part 1 of 2 because I am only allowed 2500 characters
Hi there...

I appreciate your willingness to set up a meeting with an admin and Tanner's core teachers however, I think that waiting until January 21 is a bit late. What do we do meanwhile?
Meanwhile, if things continue the way they are, Tanner will learn nothing because his whole focus right now is on all the other negative things that happen on a daily basis at school.
Tanner's social life at Billinghurst unfortunately is pretty much all negative.
He needs to be able to have a social environment however, it needs to be a positive one.
I hate to say this but what I perceived in our conversation this morning is that when I approach you with examples of things that are going on...rather than to look into the problem and see how the issue can be fixed...you diminish the problem with excuses for the teachers.

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Witnessed first hand, also I have a child that is afraid to go to school due to being bullied via getting spit on everyday and even in front of staff and nothing gets done.

Posted: October 6, 2015

This school is terrible. The staff have zero control over the children that they teach. Bullies are everywhere they allow children to smoke on the bus. I have seen zero respect shown from the children towards the staff. The teachers will not give the time of day to discuss anything with the parents. Please someone step in and take control of this school. As a very concerned parent do not send your kids to this school.

Posted: May 14, 2015

The school claims to have a a zero tolerance for bullies, but that's a joke. Of your family has money, they won't do anything to upset the "income stream". They reinforce the socioeconomic gap by favoring students with parents that donate. There are also several teachers who are bullies as well. The level of disrespect that they speak to the kids is staggering. One child was even told to "sit down and shut up and stop acting so smart" when the student pointed out the timeline they had written on the board was 10 years off. Another teacher thought it was funny to tease a kid all year about people taking the students stuff but did nothing to stop it. There are fights almost every day now and the atmosphere has become one of duck and cover versus learning. This school has allowed the elitest mentality to run rampant.

Posted: October 13, 2014

My daughter just started this year there. She LOVES it! The office gals and Principal are amazing! Great school, glad my daughter is there!

Posted: February 15, 2013

I'm going into my 2nd year here, and it's amazing! Teacher's care about you, and they always want to help. Teams become families and they bring you closer! Go BOSS!!

Posted: October 31, 2011

My son goes to school here adn it seems great the teachers and staff. My son has learning issues and grade issues and they do help. I was a little concern the first day a older child kept runniong into him and never said "Excuse me", I told my son maybe it was an accident. Staff is great though for sure.

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