Yerington Elementary School

Yerington Elementary School is a PK–4 school in the rural community of Yerington, Nevada, serving 465 students as part of the Lyon district. In 2025–2026 it ranked 311th of 376 Nevada elementary schools — the 17th percentile with 1 star — placing it in the bottom fifth of the state, and its district ranks 10th of 12. That is well below the school's mid-2010s performance, when it sat around the 34th–37th percentile with 2 stars, though the latest figure is a slight improvement over the 9th–12th percentile results from 2018–2019 through 2024–2025.

Academically, all-grade math proficiency was 23%, compared with 24.2% in the Lyon district and 36.2% statewide, while all-grade reading was 32.6% — slightly above the district's 30.7% but 12.6 points below the state's 45.2%. Reading is the school's relative bright spot and its best recent result. Math is weakest in the upper grades: 3rd-grade math proficiency was 30.5%, but 4th-grade math fell to 16.4%, 27 points below the state. Reading also slipped from 35.2% in 3rd grade to 30.3% in 4th.

Chronic absenteeism is a major concern. It reached 38.7% in 2025–2026 — above the district's 36.6% and the state's 25.5% — after dipping to 25.1% the year before, so it has been volatile rather than steadily improving. The only nearby school in the data, Schurz Elementary, 19 miles away, serves 59 students in PK–6, reports 21.7% absenteeism, smaller classes (a 14.7 student-teacher ratio versus 20.2), and far higher per-student spending ($25,506 versus $13,711), though that gap partly reflects Schurz's tiny enrollment, and Schurz's test scores are suppressed by the state so achievement cannot be compared directly. Both schools report 100% free/reduced lunch participation. Historical 2017–2018 subgroup data showed English learners ranked in the 2nd percentile, but that information is dated and should be treated cautiously.