Churchill

Schools in Churchill, Nevada make up a small district of five schools serving about 3,081 students: three elementaries, one middle school, and one high school, with no alternative schools reported. Students move through a grade-level pipeline rather than overlapping elementary configurations — Lahontan Elementary School serves K–1, E C Best Elementary serves grades 2–3, Numa Elementary School serves grades 4–5, Churchill County Middle School serves grades 6–8, and Churchill County High School serves grades 9–12. The Churchill district as a whole is rated 1 star and ranks 11th of 12 districts, at the 8th percentile statewide.

The high school is the relative bright spot. It has the strongest current school rank among schools with recent data — 29th percentile, 2 stars — and its trend is improving (20th percentile, to 26th, to 29th). Its graduation rate is 91.1%, above the district's 85.9% and the state's 85.4%, and ACT English jumped from 28.2% to 49.1%, now near the state's 50.8%. At the elementary level, E C Best has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the district at 20.5%, and its all-grade math of 26.4% beats the district's 21%. Numa has the district's best reading at 34.4%, above the district's 28.6%.

Attendance is the biggest shared challenge: four of five schools exceed the state's 25.5% chronic absenteeism rate, and the high school is highest at 39.5%. The middle school is the lowest-ranked school (18th percentile, 1 star), with math at 16%, reading at 25.4%, and science at 15.8% — above the district's 12.8% but down from 23.1% a year earlier. Science is weakest at Numa, at 9.9%. High school 9th- and 10th-grade science scores are state-suppressed and unknown, not zero, and Lahontan has no state test scores because it serves K–1. Per-student spending is highest at Lahontan ($14,601) with the lowest student-teacher ratio (15.0), and lowest at the high school ($11,001) with the highest ratio (21.3).