Eureka Elementary School

The one-sentence summary: Eureka Elementary School is a small, rural public school in Eureka, Nevada, serving 122 students in grades PK–6 as part of the Eureka district. Because no other schools are located within 20 miles, the most useful comparisons are with its own district and with Nevada as a whole.

Eureka Elementary has become one of Nevada's top elementary schools. In 2025–2026 it ranked 16th of 376 elementary schools statewide — the 96th percentile, with 5 stars — its strongest showing in the available history. A decade earlier, in 2015–2016, it ranked 127th of 347 (63rd percentile, 3 stars). Proficiency is far above average: in 2025–2026, 70.9% of students were proficient in reading and 61.2% in math, compared with 45.2% and 36.2% statewide, and also above district rates of 64.3% and 49.5%. Grade 6 results are especially strong — 90.4% in reading and 80.9% in math. Science and several grade-level scores are suppressed by the state because of small numbers; those figures are unknown, not evidence of weakness.

Attendance has improved dramatically. Chronic absenteeism fell from 29.4% in 2021–2022 to 13.2% in 2025–2026 — a 16.2 percentage-point drop that leaves the school below its district (15.9%) and roughly half the state rate (25.5%). Class sizes are small, with about 11 students per teacher in 2024–2025, and per-student spending reached $29,097 in 2023–2024, a 28% one-year increase. Free/reduced lunch figures dropped from 35.97% in 2022–2023 to 18.85% in 2024–2025, but a missing 2023–2024 year makes that shift hard to interpret. Overall, Eureka Elementary stands out as a high-performing, steadily improving rural school with strong academics, low absenteeism, small classes, and substantial resources.