North Lyon County

North Lyon County has two schools: NLC Elementary School, serving PK–8, and Northern Heights, serving grades 9–12. In 2025–26, science was the clearest shared strength: the schools’ reported results were 65% and 58%, compared with 38% statewide. Mathematics was the shared concern, with results of 38% and 33% versus 41% statewide. The most important area-wide finding is that science stands well above state results at both schools, while math falls below them.

NLC Elementary stands out for strong science and grade 8 ELA, but its grade-level results vary considerably. Its overall science result was 65%, 26 percentage points above the state; grade 8 ELA was 79%, 36 points above the state, while grade 7 ELA was 30%, 14 points below. Northern Heights had a particularly strong grade 11 science result of 58%, 28 points above the state, and a 100% graduation rate, 11 points above the state. Its grade 10 math result was 33%, 3 points below the state. The all-grades figures favor NLC in each subject, but the schools serve different grade spans, so those figures are not a direct comparison of school performance.

Recent results point to a sharper decline at Northern Heights: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, its ELA fell 15 percentage points and math fell 26; NLC’s ELA fell 1 point and math fell 3, while its science rose 2 points. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings also show a retreat for Northern Heights—from the 96th percentile in 2024–25 to the 79th in 2025–26—while NLC stayed near the middle, moving from the 53rd to the 51st percentile. NLC has 223 students and an 11.6 student–teacher ratio; Northern Heights has 102 students and a 7.1 ratio. Free/reduced-lunch rates were 48% and 42%, respectively, and per-student spending was $16,376 at NLC and $20,725 at Northern Heights.