Summary
Silver Stage Elementary School is a PK–4 school in Silver Springs, Nevada, serving 398 students as part of the Lyon County School District. The district ranks 10th of 12 in Nevada (17th percentile, 1 star), and Silver Stage itself is currently a 0-star school: it ranked 344th of 376 schools (9th percentile) in 2025–2026, a slight improvement over 376th of 379 (1st percentile) in 2024–2025. Over the long term, the school has declined from 2 stars and the 31st–35th percentile in 2015–2019 to 1 star and the teens in the early 2020s, and now to single-digit percentiles — the lowest ranking among its nearby comparison schools.
All students at Silver Stage qualify for free or reduced-price lunch (100%), and per-pupil spending was $16,830 in 2023–2024 — the highest among its Lyon County peers. In 2025–2026, 26.8% of students were proficient in math and 24.6% in reading, both below Nevada averages (36.2% math, 45.2% reading). Reading is the school's weakest area and the lowest among nearby schools; 3rd-grade reading is just 19.7%, compared with 31.5% in the district and 44.4% statewide. Chronic absenteeism is 36.1%, above the state's 25.5% and close to the district's 36.6%, though it has improved from 53.7% in 2021–2022. The student-teacher ratio was 18.9 in 2024–2025.
Compared with nearby schools, Silver Stage has the lowest current rank and lowest reading proficiency of the group: Dayton (37th percentile, 41.7% reading), Sutro (28th, 35.0%), Riverview (28th, 35.2%), East Valley (34th, 33.8%), Fernley (12th, 29.2%), and Cottonwood (21st, 25.8%). Math (26.8%) is mid-to-low, similar to Riverview and above Sutro and Fernley. Because every nearby school also serves 100% free/reduced-lunch students, poverty alone does not explain the gap — some peers achieve more with less spending. Natchez Elementary in Washoe County offers a striking contrast: much smaller classes and far higher spending, with 49.2% math and 46.0% reading proficiency.
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