Pershing

Pershing is a small rural Nevada district with four schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — serving about 666 students in grades PK through 12 in a community where most students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The district, Pershing, is ranked 9th of 12 in Nevada at the 25th percentile with 2 stars, and enrollment is concentrated at Lovelock Elementary School, which alone accounts for 301 students, or 45.2% of the district.

Pershing County High School has the strongest non-test results: chronic absenteeism of 5.9% and a 94.7% graduation rate in 2023–24, both better than the state figures shown. Pershing County Middle School has the clearest academic bright spot, with science at 28.3% — above the district's 20.5% and the state all-grades science figure of 25.5% — up from 19.2% the year before, though its math (14.0%) and reading (26.8%) trail both district and state. Lovelock Elementary School, the largest school, beats district averages in math (20.2%) and reading (31.8%) but remains below the state, and it holds 1 star in each reported year. Imlay Elementary School has only 16 students, so nearly all test scores are suppressed by the state; it spends the most per student ($24,934 in 2023–24) and has the highest student-teacher ratio (16.0).

For parents, the main takeaways are that attendance is a district strength — the district's chronic absenteeism rate of 7.2% is far below the state's 25.5% — while math and reading proficiency lag behind Nevada in every school that reports scores. Suppressed values are unknown, not zero, so Imlay cannot be compared academically, and the high school's ACT Math and science figures are also withheld. Comparisons should be made cautiously, since the metrics come from different school years.