Summary:
Yerington, Nevada is served by three public schools — an elementary, an intermediate, and a high school — all part of the Lyon County School District. Together they enroll about 1,280 students across grades PK–4, 5–8, and 9–12, and all three report 100% free/reduced lunch participation in 2024–25. The district context matters: Lyon is ranked 10th of 12 Nevada districts, at the 17th percentile with 1 star.
Among the three, Yerington Intermediate School is the strongest current performer on state ranking — 103rd of 148, 30th percentile, 2 stars — and it has the lowest student-teacher ratio (16.7), the highest per-student spending ($14,730), and the lowest chronic absenteeism (32.6%). Yerington Elementary School is improving in rank (10th to 12th to 17th percentile) but currently holds 1 star and has the highest absenteeism (38.7%). Yerington High School posts the best graduation rate at 90.5%, above the district's 85.7% and the state's 85.4%, yet it ranks 98th of 105 (7th percentile, 0 stars), down from the 29th percentile in 2022–23.
Reading is the relative local strength: both Elementary (32.6%) and Intermediate (33.3%) beat the district's 30.7%, though both remain well below the state's 45.2%. Math and science lag — Intermediate math is 18.6% and science 12.3%, while the high school's EOC Science is 13.9% and ACT English is 19.3% — all below district and state. Chronic absenteeism is above the state's 25.5% at every school. Some test scores are suppressed by the state and marked with a dash; those are unknown, not a zero or a weakness.
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