Lander

Lander, Nevada is a small rural district serving about 1,059 students across four schools that span pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: two elementary schools, one junior high, and one high school. On the state's district ranking, Lander places 12th of 12, at the 0 percentile with 0 stars, so the comparisons below are relative strengths within a district that ranks last statewide.

Battle Mountain Elementary School is the largest school at 432 students and leads Lander schools with reported test scores in 2025–26 math (18.5%) and reading (24.1%), though both are well below state averages and its rank fell from the 15th percentile in 2023–24 to the 3rd percentile with 0 stars in 2025–26. Battle Mountain High School has the strongest recent statewide standing among Lander schools (28th percentile, 1 star) and the only school-level graduation rate in the data, 90.8% in 2023–24. Eleanor Lemaire Junior High School improved in math, reading, and science from 2024–25 to 2025–26 and has the lowest chronic absenteeism (30.4%), but also the highest student-teacher ratio, 34.4, and the lowest per-student spending, $12,663. Austin Combined Schools serves just 8 students in grades PK–8; its test scores are suppressed, so its academics are unknown, and it has the highest absenteeism (53.8%) and spending ($36,465).

Chronic absenteeism is the district-wide concern: every school with data is above the state rate of 25.5%, and the district average is 34.5%. Free/reduced lunch rates are similar across the three reporting schools, from 42.72% to 49.35%, and Austin's is not reported. Spending does not track neatly with outcomes here. Where a test score is shown as a dash, treat it as unknown rather than as low performance — that limits what families can conclude, especially about Austin.